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Methoca robusta Kimsey

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Thynnoidea; Family: Thynnidae; Subfamily: Methochinae; Genus: Methoca)

Classification

Methoca robusta Kimsey, 2011

Distribution

 Madagascar.

Biology

 Unknown, but other Methoca species are ectoparasitoids of subterranean tiger beetle larva (Cicindelinae).

References

Kimsey, L.S. 1991. Relationships among the tiphiid wasp subfamilies (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology 16: 427-438.

Kimsey, LS. 2011. Tiphiidae wasps of Madagascar (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 22: 45–68. doi: 10.3897/JHR.22.1142

Credits

Photographs © Lynn Kimsey (Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis).

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>).

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