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Chalinus imperialis (Westwood)

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

Oryssus imperialis Westwood, 1874. Holotype: in Hope Entomological Collection, University Museum, Oxford (OXUM). Type locality: Ghana.

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. Synonymy by Vilhelmsen, 2001.

 

Classification

Distribution

Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania.

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.

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