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Scolebythus madecassus Evans

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

Scolebythus madecassus Evans, 1963.

 

Distribution

Madagascar.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Brazidec M. 2024. Sixty-one years later: a second species of Scolebythus Evans (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae) from southern Madagascar. Zootaxa 5514: 550-558. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5514.6.3

Evans, H.E. 1963. A new family of wasps. Psyche 70 (1): 7-16, pl. 2.

Evans, H.E., Kugler, C. & Brown, W.L. Jr. 1979. Rediscovery of Scolebythus madecassus, with description of the male and of the female sting apparatus (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae). Psyche 86 (1): 45-51.

Credits

Photographs © Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

 

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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