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Key to Pseudoryssus species

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

ClassificationIdentification keys

1. Body, especially head and thorax, with dense pilosity of white hairs (a, b)… Pseudoryssus niehuisorum

 

- Setation inconspicuous, colour predominantly blackish-brown (A, B) … Pseudoryssus  henschii

 

References

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.

Vilhelmsen L, Blank SM, Sechi D, Ndiaye MM, Niang AA & van Noort S. The Orussidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Africa.

Credits

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

photographs © Lars Vilhelmsen (Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen) or photographs © Stephen M. Blank (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut).

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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