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Chalinus congoensis Guiglio

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Orussoidea; Family: Orussidae; Genus: Chalinus)

Chalinus congoensis Guiglia, 1936. Syntypes: in Muséum National d'Historie Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) and in Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC). Type locality: Kindu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Junior synonym of Chalinus imperialis Westwood, 1874. Synonymy by Vilhelmsen 2001.

 

Classification

Syntype female (MNHN)
Chalinus_congoensis_TYPE_female_habitus_dorsal Chalinus_congoensis_TYPE_female_habitus_lateral
Chalinus_congoensis_TYPE_female_head_mesosoma_dorsal Chalinus_congoensis_TYPE_female_head_mesosoma_lateral
Chalinus_congoensis_TYPE_female_head_frontal Chalinus_congoensis_TYPE_female_head_frontal
Chalinus_congoensis_TYPE_female_head_ventral Chalinus_congoensis_TYPE_female_metasoma_dorsal
Chalinus_congoensis_TYPE_female_wing Chalinus_congoensis_TYPE_female_labels

Syntype male (MRAC)
 

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo.

Biology

Unknown, but presumably a parasitoid of wood-boring insect larvae.

References

Guiglia, D. 1936. Una nuovo specie del gen. Chalinus (Hymen. Phytophaga). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 59: 260-266.

Westwood, J.O. 1874. Genus Oryssus. Pp. 118-121, pl 22 in: Thesaurus entomolgicus oxoniensis or Illustrations of new, rare and interesting insects. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Vilhelmsen, L. 2001. Systematic revision of the genera Chalinus Konow, 1897 and Mocsarya Konow, 1897 (Hymenoptera, Orussidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 32: 361-380.

Vilhelmsen, L. 2003. Phylogeny and classification of the Orussidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera), a basal parasitic wasp taxon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139: 337-418.

Credits

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

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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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