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Chalcedectus copelandi Gibson & van Noort
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Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Chalcedectidae; Genus: Chalcedectus)
Chalcedectus copelandi
Gibson & van Noort, 2026. Holotype ♀in ICIPE, Nairobi. Type locality: Kenya, Eastern Prov[ince], Kasaala area, 733 m, 2.07836°S, 38.22517°E; Malaise trap, just inside isolated wood-land patch, 22 OCT-5 NOV 2015, R. Copeland. |
Distribution
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Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Madagascar, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, ?Yemen, ?United Arab Emirates.
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Biology
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Unknown, but probably a parasitoid of wood-boring beetle larva.
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References |
Cameron, P. 1884. Fam. Chalcididae. [continued]
Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Families
Tenthredinidae-Chrysididae.). 1:129-135.
Gibson, G.A.P. 2003,
Phylogenetics and classification of Cleonyminae (Hymenoptera:
Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). Memoirs on Entomology, International
16: 1-339.
van Noort S, Gibson GAP, Ranjith AP, Mitroiu M-D. 2026. Revision of Chalcedectidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from the Afrotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic regions with description of eleven new species. Zootaxa 5781: 1-106. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5781.1.1 |
Credits
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Photographs © Gary Gibson (CNC, Ottawa, Canada), or photographs and map illustration
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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