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Orussus scutator (Benson)

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

Heliorussus scutator Benson, 1955. Holotype in Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Moyamba (Sierra Leone).

 

Classification


Photographs © Lars Vilhelmsen (Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen).


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Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). Images taken with hand held SLR (Nikon D80), 105 mm macro lens and slave flashes diffused through polystyrene cup.

Distribution

Sierra Leone.

Biology

Host unknown.

References

Benson, R.B. 1955. Classification of the Orussidae with some new genera and species (Hymenoptera: Symphyta). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 24: 13–23.

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) or 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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