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Chalinus plumicornis (Guérin-Méneville)

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

Oryssus plumicornis Guérin-Méneville, [1849]. Neotype: Zoologische Staatssammlung, München (ZSM). Type locality: Rikatla, near Delagoa [=Maputo], Mozambique.

Oryssus braunsi Enslin, 1911: 668–669, ♂, type locality: South Africa, Transvaal, Waterberg, Platriver, leg. Brauns (TMSA), synonymy by Vilhelmsen et al 2017: Chalinus braunsi (Enslin, 1911).
Chalinus somalicus Guiglia, 1935: 274–279, ♂, type locality: Somalia, Villaggio Duca degli Abruzzi (MCSN), synonymy by Vilhelmsen et al. 2017
Chalinus schulthessi Guiglia, 1936: 136–144, ♀♂, type locality: Mocambique, Rikatla near Delagoa (ZSM), synonymy with C. braunsi by Vilhelmsen (2001), objective synonym of O. plumicornis.
Chalinus orientalis Guiglia, 1937: 456–460, ♀♂, type locality: Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Pangani (ZMHB), synonymy by Vilhelmsen et al. 2017.
 

Classification

Distribution

Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Biology

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

References

Enslin, E. 1911. Über Tenthrediniden aus Afrika. Deutsches Entomologisches Zeitschrift 1911: 668-669.

Guérin-Méneville F.É. [1849]. Insectes. In: Lefebvre C.T., Petit A., Quartin-Dillon R. & Vignaud 1847–1851. Voyage en Abyssinie, exécuté pendant les annés 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, par une Commission scientifique. 6 (4. Partie). Bertrand, Paris, pp. 243–398.

Guiglia D. 1935. Un nuovo Oryssidae africano. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 57: 273–280.
Guiglia, D. 1936. Un nuovo Orisside dell' Africa meridionale (Hymen. Phytophaga). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 59: 136-144.

Guiglia D. 1937. Gli Orussini Africani del gen. Chalinus (Hymen. Phytophaga). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 59: 452–460 + 1 plt.
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 © Lars Vilhelmsen (Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen).

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