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Chalinus
imperialis (Westwood)
(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa
(animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera;
Superfamily: Orussoidea; Family: Orussidae;
Genus: Chalinus)
Oryssus
imperialis Westwood,
1874. Holotype: in Hope Entomological Collection,
University Museum, Oxford (OXUM). Type locality: Ghana.
Chalinus
congoensis Guiglia, 1936. Syntypes in Muséum National
d'Historie Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) and in Musée Royal
de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC). Type locality: Kindu, Democratic Republic of
Congo.
Synonymy by Vilhelmsen, 2001.
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Distribution
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Cameroon,
Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania. |
Biology
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Unknown, but presumably a
parasitoid of wood-boring insect larvae.
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References
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Guiglia, D.
1936. Una nuovo specie
del gen. Chalinus (Hymen. Phytophaga). Annali del Museo Civico di
Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 59: 260-266.
Westwood, J.O. 1874. Genus Oryssus.
Pp. 118-121, pl 22 in: Thesaurus entomolgicus oxoniensis or Illustrations of
new, rare and interesting insects. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Vilhelmsen,
L. 2001. Systematic revision of the genera
Chalinus
Konow, 1897 and Mocsarya Konow, 1897
(Hymenoptera, Orussidae).
Insect
Systematics & Evolution 32:
361-380.
Vilhelmsen,
L. 2003.
Phylogeny
and classification of the Orussidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera), a basal parasitic
wasp taxon. Zoological Journal of the
Linnean Society 139: 337-418.
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Credits
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Photographs © Simon van
Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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