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Chalinus somalicus Guiglia

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Orussoidea; Family: Orussidae; Genus: Chalinus)

Chalinus somalicus Guiglia, 1935. Holotype: in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova (MCSN). Type locality: Villagio Duca degli Abruzzi (Somalia).

Junior synonym of Chalinus plumicornis (Guérin-Méneville, [1849]). Synonymy by Vilhelmsen, et al 2017.

 

Classification

Distribution

Kenya, Somalia.

Biology

Parasitoid of wood-boring cerambycid larva ex Rinorea convallariiflora (Violaceae).

References

Guiglia, D. 1935. Un nuovo Orysside del Congo Belga. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 57: 6-11.

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.

Credits

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

Images taken with hand held SLR (Nikon D80), 105 mm macro lens and slave flashes diffused through polystyrene cup.
Next genus: Leptorussus

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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