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Sclerogibba madegassa Benoit

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

Mystrocnemis berlandi Benoit, 1952. Holoype: in Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN). Type locality: Bekily, Madagascar.

Distribution

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Afrotropical region: Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania. Oriental: Sri Lanka, Thailand.

Biology

 Parasitoid of Embiidina (= Embioptera): Scelembia malkini, Plescembia sp.

References

 Benoit  P.L.G. 1952. Les Scleroginnidae (Hym.), famille nouvelle pour la faune de Madagascar. Mém. Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Série E, 1 (1): 181-182.

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

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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