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Scelio
cano Yoder
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Platygastroidea; Family Scelionidae; Subfamily:
Scelioninae; Genus: Scelio)
Scelio cano Yoder,
2014.
Holotype: in CNCI, Ottawa. Type locality:
Kabarole Dist., 20km SE Fort Portal, nr. Mikana, stream, Makerere
University Biological Field Station (MUBFS), 00°34.37'N, 30°21.66'E,
1530m, Uganda. |
Figures 169–174. Scelio cano, holotype female (OSUC
212930). 169 Habitus, dorsal view 170 Habitus, lateral view 171 Head and
mesosoma, dorsal view 172 Head and mesosoma, lateral view 173 Head,
anterior view 174 Mesoscutum, dorsal view. Scale bars in millimeters. |
Distribution
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Uganda.
Link to distribution
Map (Hymenoptera online database). |
Biology
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Host unknown, but probably an egg parasitoid
of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae (Orthoptera). |
References
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Yoder, M., Valerio,
A., Polaszek, A., van Noort, S., Masner, L., Johnson, N. 2014.
Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille
(Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers
(Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
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Credits
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Photographs © Matt Yoder. |
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