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Sclerogibba magrettii (Kieffer)

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

Prosclerogibba magrettii Kieffer, 1913. Holoype: in Museo Civico de Storia Naturale "Giacomp Doria", Genoa. Type locality: Eritrea.

Distribution

Afrotropical region: Eritrea, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Yemen.

Also Oriental region: India; and Palaearctic region: Egypt, Italy, Tunisia.

Biology

 Parasitoid of Embia tyrrhenica (Stefani, 1956) (Embiidina = Embioptera).

References

 Kieffer J.J. 1913.  Nouveaux Microhyménoptéres de l'Afrique equatoriale. Boll. Lab. Zool. gen. agr. Potici 7: 105-112.

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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