Oxyscelio kylix Burks

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

Oxyscelio kylix Burks, 2016. Holotype in Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa (CNCI). Type locality: Lola Pref., Gouan River, Mount Nimba, 07°42'N 08°23'W, 514m, Guinea.

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Distribution HOL distribution map	Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Uganda.
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 kylix Burks

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