Scelio nitens Brues

Scelio nitens Brues 1906. Holotype: in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Massachusetts. Type locality:

Distribution	Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe. Link to distribution MAP (Hymenoptera online database).
Biology	Host unknown, but probably an egg parasitoid of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae (Orthoptera).
Reference	Brues, C.T. 1906. Descriptions of parasatic Hymenoptera from Cape Colony. Bull. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc. 4: 103-112. Yoder, M., Valerio, A., Polaszek, A., Masner, L., Johnson, N. 2009. Revision of Scelio pulchripennis-group species (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae). ZooKeys 20: 53-118. (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.20.205).
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>).