Distribution
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Afrotropical region: Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia, Somalia, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda,
Yemen. Also Australasian, Nearctic, Oriental & Palaearctic regions. |
Biology
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Ectoparasitoid of Oligotoma greeniana
Enderlein, O. minuscula Enderlein and O. nigra Hagen
nymphs (Oligotomidae, Embiidina = Embioptera). In Kenya recorded from:
Chirembia sp., Gnathembia sp., Navasiella
sp., Cephalembia sp. |
References
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Argaman, Q. 1988. Generic synopsis
of Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis
Hungarici 80: 177-187.
Azevedo C.O., Madl.
M. & Olmi, M. 2010. A Catalogue of the Bethylidae, Chrysididae, Dryinidae,
Embolemidae, Sclerogibbidae and Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the
Malagasy Subregion. Linzer Biologische Beitrage 42: 845-918.
Bridwell, J.C.
1919.
Some notes on
Hawaiian and other Bethylidae (Hymenoptera) with description of new species. Proceedings
of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 4: 21-38.
Olmi, M.
2005.
A revision of the
world Sclerogibbidae (Hymneoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula Entomologica 26-27
(2003-2004): 46-193.
Olmi, M. & van Harten, A. 2006. Dryinidae,
Sclerogibbidae and Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of Yemen, with
revised keys to the species of the Arabian peninsula. Fauna of Arabia 21:
307–337.
Olmi, M., van Noort, S. & Guglielmino, A. 2016.
Contribution to the knowledge of Afrotropical Dryinidae, Embolemidae and
Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera) with description of new species from
Central African Republic and Uganda. ZooKeys 578: 45-95. |
Credits
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Map illustration
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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Next genus:
Scolebythus
(Scolebythidae) Next species:
Scolebythus
madecassus |
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