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Odontacolus africanus Valerio & Austin

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

Odontacolus africanus Valerio & Austin, 2013. Holotype in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type localityKwaZulu-Natal Prov., Eshowe, South Africa.

Distribution

Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Host: unknown.

Reference

Kieffer, J.J. 1910. Diagnoses de nouveaux genres et de nouvelles espèces de Scélionides (Hym.) des îles Séchelles. Bull. Soc. Entomol. France 1910:292-294.

Valerio, A.A., Austin, A.D., Masner, L. & Johnson, N.F. 2013. Systematics of Old World Odontacolus Kieffer s.l. (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s.l.): parasitoids of spider eggs. Zookeys 314 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.314.3475

Credits

Photographs © Alejandro Valerio, Norman F. Johnson (Ohio State University).

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

 

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