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Pristocera obliterata Kieffer

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Bethylidae; Subfamily: Pristocerinae;  Genus: Pristocera)

Pristocera obliterata Kieffer, 1913, 1: 9. Holotype: in ? Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Type locality: "Afrique orientale anglaise: Rurunga"

Pristocera obliterata luteipes (junior synonym) Benoit 1957, 88: 55. Holotype: in Musee Royal l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren. Type locality: "Rweru (volc. Mikeno)"

Taxonomy: Kieffer, 1914, 41: 425; Benoit 1956, 51: 563; Benoit 1957, 88: 54-55, figs 28, 29; Benoit 1963, 119, 35, 58-60, 90, figs 92-94. Ecology: Taken from bamboo; taken at 2,300 meter elevation.

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda.

Biology

 Unknown.

Reference

Zamprogno, L.N. & Azevedo, C.O. 2014. Phylogeny and reclassification of Pristocera Klug (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 45: 1-49.

Credits

 Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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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