Distribution
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Cameroon, Central African Republic, Benin, Ghana,
Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone,
South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe. Link to
distribution
Map (Hymenoptera online database). Also recorded form French Guiana
(Popovici et al 2018). |
Biology |
Parasitoid of eggs of “Locustidae" (probably
Conocephalus species,
Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae). |
Reference |
Taekul, C., Johnson, N.F., Masner, L., Polaszek, A., Rajmohana,
K. 2010. World species of the genus Platyscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera,
Platygastridae) ZooKeys 50: 97–126.
doi:
10.3897/zookeys.50.485
Popovici OA, Masner L, Viciriuc M,
Pintilioaie A, Notton DG & Talamas E. 2018.
New distribution data for some charismatic tramp species of Platygastroidea
(Hymenoptera). Zootaxa 4370: 1 – 22.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4370.1.1
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Credits
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Photographs
© Charuwat Taekul (Ohio State University).
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Next genus:
Probaryconus
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