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Afrevania leroyi Benoit

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Evanioidea; Family: Evaniidae; Genus: Afrevania)

Afrevania leroyi Benoit, 1953. Holotype in Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren (RMCA). Type locality: Nord du lac Kivu, Rwankwi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Classification

Distribution

Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia.

Biology

Host species of cockroach (Blattodea) unknown.

References

Benoit, PLG. 1953. Trois nouveaux Evaniidae du Congo Belge (Hymen). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 48: 257-260.

Mikó I, Copeland RS, Balhoff JP, Yoder MJ, Deans AR 2014. Folding Wings like a Cockroach: A Review of Transverse Wing Folding Ensign Wasps (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae: Afrevania and Trissevania). PLoS ONE 9(5): e94056. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094056

Credits

 Photographs © Istvan Mikó (Frost Entomological Museum, Pennsylvania, USA).

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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