Oxyscelio absentiae Burks

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Platygastroidea; Family Scelionidae; Subfamily: Scelioninae; Genus: Oxyscelio)

Oxyscelio absentiae Burks, 2016. Holotype in Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa (CNCI). Type locality: Mogadishu, Shabelle (Shabelli) Valley, Afgooye (Afgoi), Somalia.

ZooBank

Distribution HOL distribution map	Somalia.
Biology	Unknown.
Reference	Burks RA, Masner L, Johnson NF, Austin AD. 2016. Systematics of the parasitic wasp genus Oxyscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s.l.), part III: African fauna. ZooKeys 565: 29–71. doi:10.3897/zookeys.565.7185
Credits	Photographs © Roger Burks (The Ohio State University).
	Next genus: Palpoteleia

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>).

Oxyscelio absentiae Burks

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HOL distribution map

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