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Chalinus
plumicornis (Guérin-Méneville)
(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa
(animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera;
Superfamily: Orussoidea; Family: Orussidae;
Genus: Chalinus)
Oryssus plumicornis
Guérin-Méneville,
[1849]. Neotype:
Zoologische
Staatssammlung, München (ZSM).
Type locality: Rikatla, near Delagoa [=Maputo], Mozambique.
Oryssus braunsi Enslin, 1911: 668–669, ♂, type
locality: South Africa, Transvaal, Waterberg, Platriver, leg. Brauns
(TMSA), synonymy by Vilhelmsen et al 2017:
Chalinus braunsi (Enslin, 1911).
Chalinus somalicus Guiglia, 1935: 274–279, ♂, type locality:
Somalia, Villaggio Duca degli Abruzzi (MCSN), synonymy by Vilhelmsen
et al. 2017
Chalinus schulthessi Guiglia, 1936: 136–144, ♀♂, type
locality: Mocambique, Rikatla near Delagoa (ZSM), synonymy with
C. braunsi by Vilhelmsen (2001), objective synonym of O.
plumicornis.
Chalinus orientalis Guiglia, 1937: 456–460, ♀♂, type
locality: Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Pangani (ZMHB), synonymy by
Vilhelmsen et al. 2017.
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Distribution
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Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe. |
Biology
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Unknown, but presumably a
parasitoid of wood-boring insect larvae.
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References
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Enslin, E. 1911. Über Tenthrediniden aus
Afrika. Deutsches Entomologisches Zeitschrift 1911: 668-669.
Guérin-Méneville F.É. [1849]. Insectes. In: Lefebvre C.T.,
Petit A., Quartin-Dillon R. & Vignaud 1847–1851. Voyage en Abyssinie,
exécuté pendant les annés 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, par une
Commission scientifique. 6 (4. Partie). Bertrand, Paris, pp. 243–398.
Guiglia D. 1935. Un nuovo
Oryssidae africano. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale
Giacomo Doria 57: 273–280.
Guiglia, D. 1936. Un nuovo
Orisside dell' Africa meridionale (Hymen. Phytophaga). Annali del Museo
Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 59: 136-144.
Guiglia D. 1937. Gli Orussini
Africani del gen. Chalinus (Hymen. Phytophaga). Annali del
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 59: 452–460 + 1 plt.
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 © Lars Vilhelmsen (Natural History
Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen). |
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Next genus: Leptorussus |
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