Figures 151–156. Scelio zolotarevskyi Ferrière,
female (OSUC 213559). 151 Habitus, dorsal view 152 Habitus, lateral view
153 Head and mesosoma, dorsal view 154 Head and mesosoma, lateral view
155 Head, anterior view 156 Head, lateral view. Scale bars in
millimeters. |
Distribution
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Afrotropical region: Benin, Botswana, Eritrea, Ghana, Kenya,
Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa,
Tanzania, Yemen.
Palaearctic region: United
Arab Emirates.
Link to distribution
Map (Hymenoptera online database). |
Biology
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Emerged from Acrididae [Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from egg of
Acrotylus Fieber [Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from ootheca of
Acrotylus patruelis (Herrich-Schaeffer) [Orthoptera:
Acrididae]; emerged from ootheca of Cyrtacanthacris tatarica
tatarica (Linnaeus) [Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from egg of
Eyprepocnemis plorans plorans (Charpentier) [Orthoptera: Acrididae,
as Euprepocnemis senegalensis Bolívar]; emerged from egg
of Eyprepocnemis smaragdipes Bruner [Orthoptera: Acrididae];
emerged from ootheca of Eyprepocnemis smaragdipes Bruner [Orthoptera:
Acrididae]; emerged from egg of Gastrimargus africanus (Saussure)
[Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from ootheca of Gastrimargus
africanus (Saussure) [Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from ootheca
of Heteracris Walker [Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from egg of
Locusta Linnaeus [Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged from egg of
Locusta cinerascens capito Saussure [Orthoptera: Acrididae, as L.
migratoria capito]; emerged from ootheca of Locusta cinerascens
capito Saussure [Orthoptera: Acrididae, as L. migratoria capito];
emerged from egg of Locusta cinerascens migratorioides (Reiche &
Fairmaire) [Orthoptera: Acrididae, as L. migratorioides]; emerged
from egg of Nomadacris Uvarov [Orthoptera: Acrididae]; emerged
from ootheca of Nomadacris septemfasciata (Serville) [Orthoptera:
Acrididae]; emerged from ootheca of Oedaleus virgula (Snellen van
Vollenhoven) [Orthoptera: Acrididae] (Yoder et al., 2014) |
References
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Ferrière,
C. 1930. On some egg-parasites from Africa. Bull. Entomol. Res. 21:33-44.
Ferrière,
C. 1952. Deux neouveaux parasites des oeufs de Locusta migratoria
migratorioides en Afrique. Bull. Soc. Entomol. France 56:114-118.
Nixon,
G. E. J. 1958. A synopsis of the African species of Scelio Latreille
(Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea, Platygastridae). Trans. R. Entomol.Soc. Lond.
110:303-318.
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
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) |
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