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Classification

Scelio irwini Yoder

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

 

Scelio irwini Yoder, 2014. Holotype: in CASC, San Fransisco. Type locality: Montagne d’Ambre National Park, 12°30'52"S, 49°10'53"E, 960m, Madagascar.

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Figures 299–304. Scelio irwini, holotype female (CASENT 2042009). 299 Habitus, dorsal view 300 Habitus, lateral view 301 Mesosoma, dorsal view 302 Mesosoma, lateral view 303 Head, anterior view 304 Metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars in millimeters.

Distribution

Madagascar.

Link to distribution Map (Hymenoptera online database).

Biology

Host unknown, but probably an egg parasitoid of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae (Orthoptera).

References

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

Credits

Photographs © Matt Yoder.
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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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