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Sclerogibba vagabunda (Bridwell)

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

Lithobiocerus vagabundus Bridwell, 1919. Holoype: in United States National Museum, Washington (DC) (USNM). Type locality: Hawaii.

Distribution

Afrotropical region: Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia, Somalia, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen. Also Australasian, Nearctic, Oriental & Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Ectoparasitoid of Oligotoma greeniana Enderlein, O. minuscula Enderlein and O. nigra Hagen nymphs (Oligotomidae, Embiidina = Embioptera). In Kenya recorded from: Chirembia sp., Gnathembia sp., Navasiella
sp., Cephalembia sp.

References

Argaman, Q. 1988. Generic synopsis of Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 80: 177-187.

Azevedo C.O., Madl. M. & Olmi, M. 2010. A Catalogue of the Bethylidae, Chrysididae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, Sclerogibbidae and Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Malagasy Subregion. Linzer Biologische Beitrage 42: 845-918.

Bridwell, J.C. 1919. Some notes on Hawaiian and other Bethylidae (Hymenoptera) with description of new species. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 4: 21-38.

Olmi, M. 2005. A revision of the world Sclerogibbidae (Hymneoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula Entomologica 26-27 (2003-2004): 46-193.

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.

Olmi, M., van Noort, S. & Guglielmino, A. 2016. Contribution to the knowledge of Afrotropical Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera) with description of new species from Central African Republic and Uganda. ZooKeys 578: 45-95.

Credits

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