Figures 205–210. Scelio susurro, holotype female (OSUC
213654). 205 Habitus, dorsal view 206 Habitus, lateral view 207 Head and
mesosoma, dorsal view 208 Head and mesosoma, lateral view 209 Head,
anterior view 210, Metasoma, lateral view. Scale bars in millimeters. |
Distribution
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Central African Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia,
Nigeria.
Link to distribution
Map (Hymenoptera online database). |
Biology
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Host unknown, but probably an egg parasitoid
of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae (Orthoptera). |
References
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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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