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Orussus unicolor Latreille

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

Orussus unicolor Latreille, 1811. Holotype in ?. Type locality: ?

 

Classification

Distribution

Algeria. Also in central and southern Europe.

Biology

Host unknown.

References

Latreille P.A. 1811. Orysse. In: Olivier M, ed. Encyclopédie méthodique, Tome 8. Histoire naturelle. Insectes. Paris, 557–561.

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).


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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