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Classification

Scelio exaratus (Kieffer)

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

Scelio exaratus Kieffer 1910. Holotype: in The Natural History Museum, London. Type locality

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Distribution

Seychelles.

Link to distribution Map (Hymenoptera online database).

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.

Yoder, M., Valerio, A., Polaszek, A., van Noort, S., Masner, L., Johnson, N. 2014. Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188. (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.380.5755).

Credits

Photographs © 2014, Norman Johnson, The Natural History Museum, London.
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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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