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Opisthacantha Ashmead

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

Opisthacantha Ashmead 1893. Type species: Chromoteleia semicyanea Ashmead 1893.

 

 Opisthacantha infortunata (Nixon, 1933)
 

Opisthacantha maxillosa (Risbec, 1950)
 

Opisthacantha sagittifera Risbec, 1957

 

 Opisthacantha selene (Nixon, 1933)
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Distribution

 Afrotropical

Biology

 Host: unknown

Reference

 Ashmead, W. H. 1893. A monograph of the North American Proctotrypidae. Bull. U. S. Nat, Mus.45. 472 pp.

Credits

 Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)., Photographs by Candice Owen © (Iziko South African Museum).
  Next genus: Oreiscelio

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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