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Sclerogibba berlandi Benoit

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Sclerogibbidae; Genus: Sclerogibba)

Mystrocnemis berlandi Benoit, 1963. Holoype: in Museum National d'Histoire Naturellle, Paris (MNHN). Type locality: Tizi n'Test, Morocco.

Sclerogibba pilosella (Argaman, 1993). Holotype: in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa. Type locality: Molarotto Island, Italy.

Distribution

Afrotropical region: Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Also Oriental region: India, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand; and Palaearctic region: Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey.

Biology

 Parasitoid of Embiidina (= Embioptera): Scelembia sp., Machadoembia sp., Plesembia sp. Oligotoma saundersii (Westwood), Olitogoma n. sp. Aposthonia borneensis, Haploembia sp., Embia sp.

References

Argaman, Q. 1993. A taxonomic study of Sclerogibbidae especially from the circumsardinian islands. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale “Giacomo Doria” 89: 537-553.

Benoit  P.L.G. 1963. Bethylides nord-africains recoltès par M.L. Berland. Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris, 2º Série, 35: 82-84.

Olmi, M. & Copeland, R.S. & Guglielmino, A. 2015. An updated checklist of Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera) of Kenya and Burundi, with descriptions of thirteen new species. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55(1): 333-380.

Credits

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