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Fuscicornia bambeyi Risbec

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Platygastroidea; Family Scelionidae; Subfamily: Scelioninae; Genus: Fuscicornia)

Fuscicornia bambeyi Risbec, 1950. Holotype in Paris (MNHN). Type locality: M’Bambey, Senegal.


Female OSUC 164019


Female OSUC 148981


Distribution

Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Risbec, J. 1950. Contribution à l'étude des Proctotrupidaw (Serphiidae). Proctotrupidés des la Section technique d'Agricultures tropicale (A.O.F.) et Proctotrupidés du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Afrique et Colonies françaises). Travaux du Laboratoire d'Entomologie du Secteur Soudanais de Recherches Agronomiques, Gouvernement Générale de l'Afrique Occidentale Françaises. 639 pp.

Taekul, C., N. F. Johnson, L. Masner, Rajmohana K. and Chen S.-P. 2008. Revision of the world species of the genus Fusicornia Risbec (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae, Scelioninae). Zootaxa 1966: 1-52.

Credits

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

 

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