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Norbanus mustatai Mitroiu

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Pteromalinae; Genus: Norbanus)

Norbanus mustatai Mitroiu, 2015. Holotype in The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH).  Type locality: Delmas (South Africa).

Distribution

South Africa, Zimbabwe (Mitroiu, 2015).

Biology

Reared from Chilo partellus (Crambidae) on sorghum (South Africa), as well as larvae of Busseola fusca (Noctuidae) (Zimbabwe) (Mitroiu, 2015).

References

Mitroiu, M.-D. 2015 Revision of the Afrotropical species of Norbanus Walker (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Zootaxa 3969:1–103. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3969.1.1

Credits

Photographs © Mircea-Dan Mitroiu (Faculty of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania). First published in Zootaxa:

http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3969.1.1

 

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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