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Chalcedectus schroderae van Noort
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Chalcedectidae;
Genus:
Chalcedectus)
Chalcedectus schroderae van Noort, 2026. Holotype ♀ SAM-HYM-P095392 in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Province, KwaZulu Natal, Zululand, -28.342557 30.750525; 15/4/2022, Eucalyptus grandis × europhylla, M. L. Schröder, Phoracantha infested log, Plantation; Site 17, T1.
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Distribution
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Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Somalia, South Africa (Kwazulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, and Western Cape provinces), Zambia. |
Biology
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Reared from Phoracantha infested Eucalyptus logs. |
References
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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 and map illustration
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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