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Oxyscelio quassus Burks

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

Oxyscelio quassus 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

 

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Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, 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).
 

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