Dyscritobaeus comitans Perkins

Dyscritobaeus comitans Perkins, 1910. Holotype in BPBM. Type locality: Hawaii, Honolulu (USA).

Dyscritobaeus cerosus O’Connor & Ashe, 2012. Synonymy by Tortorici et al 2016.

Distribution	Afrotropical region: Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, Zimbabwe. Also in the Australian, Oriental and Palaearctic regions.
Biology	Host: unknown.
References	Caleca V. & Mineo G. 1995. On the genus Dyscritobaeus Perkins, 1910 (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae). Boll. Lab. Ent. Zool. agr. "Fillippo Silvestri" Portici 50 (1993): 9-21. O’Connor, J.P. & Ashe, P. 2011. Three new species of Dyscritobaeus Perkins (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Scelionidae) from Mozambique. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 57(4): 343–349. Tortorici, F., Caleca, V., van Noort, S., & Masner, L. 2016. Revision of Afrotropical Dyscritobaeus Perkins, 1910 (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae). Zootaxa 4178: 1-59. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.1.1
Credits	Photographs by Francesco Tortorici © 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>).