Figures 121–126. Scelio howardi Crawford, female (OSUC
211309). 121 Habitus, dorsal view 122 Habitus, lateral view 123 Head and
mesosoma, dorsal view 124 Head and mesosoma, lateral view 125 Head,
anterior view 126 Metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars in millimeters. |
Distribution
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Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central
African Republic, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya,
Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa,
Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe.
Link to distribution
Map (Hymenoptera online database). |
Biology
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Emerged from egg of
Eyprepocnemis plorans plorans (Charpentier) [Orthoptera: Acrididae
(as Euprepocnemis senegalensis Bolívar)]; living in Indigofera
brachystachya (DC.) [Fabales: Fabaceae]; emerged from diapausing eggs of
Kraussaria angulifera (Krauss) [Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged
from egg of Kraussaria angulifera (Krauss) [Orthoptera: Acrididae];
emerged from egg of Nomadacris septemfasciata
(Serville) [Orthoptera: Acrididae]; solitary egg parasitoid of
Nomadacris septemfasciata (Serville) [Orthoptera: Acrididae] (Yoder
et al., 2014). |
References
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Crawford
JC. 1910. Two new species of African parasitic Hymenoptera. The Canandian Entomologist
42: 222-223.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/Ent42222-7 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.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.380.5755
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Credits
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Photographs © Matt Yoder. |
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Next genus:
Shreemana |
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