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Probethylus Ashmead

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Sclerogibbidae)

Probethylus Ashmead, 1902. Type species: Probethylus schwarzi Ashmead, 1902.

Probethylus callani Richards, 1939

Distribution

Afrotropical: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen.

Nearctic: USA: Arizona, California, Texas. Neotropical: Mexico, Trinidad, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.

Biology

Parasitoids of Embiidina.

References

Argaman, Q. 1993. A taxonomic study of Sclerogibbidae especially from the circumsardinian islands. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale “Giacomo Doria” 89: 537-553.

Ashmead W.H. 1902. Classification of fossorial, predaceous and parasitic wasps, or the superfamily Vespoidea. Canadian Entomologist 34: 268-273.

Martynova KV, Olmi M, Müller P, Perkovsky EE. 2019. Description of the first sclerogibbid wasp (Hymenoptera: Sclerogibbidae) from Burmese (Myanmar) amber and its phylogenetic significance. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 0: 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1551250

Olmi, M. &  van Harten, A. 2006. Dryinidae, Sclerogibbidae and Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of Yemen, with revised keys to the species of the Arabian peninsula. Fauna of Arabia 21: 307–337.

Credits

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Next genus: Protosclerogibba


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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