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Orussus schoutedeni Guiglia

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

Orussus schoutedeni Guiglia, 1937. Holotype female in Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC). Type locality: Haut Uele, Moto, Democratic Republic of Congo.

 

Classification
 

Distribution

Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria.

Biology

Host unknown.

References

Guiglia D. 1937. Il gen. Oryssus in Africa. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 59: 411–419 + 2 plts.
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).

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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