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Dryinus erraticus

  • 1. Tropical Entomology Research Center, Viterbo, Via De Gasperi 10, 01100 Italy; e-mail: olmi @ unitus. it & Corresponding author
  • 2. International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), P. O. Box 30772, Nairobi 00100, Kenya and National Museums of Kenya, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, P. O. Box 40658 Nairobi 00100, Kenya, e-mail: rcopeland @ icipe. org, hunteriazeylanica @ yahoo. com
  • 3. Department of Agriculture, Forests, Nature and Energy, University of Tuscia, Via San Camillo de Lellis, Viterbo, 01100 Italy; e-mail: guglielm @ unitus. it

Description

52. Dryinus erraticus (Turner, 1928) **

Material examined. New records. KENYA: COAST: Kasigau Mtn., 3.82080°S 38.64178°E, 737 m, bottom of forest, Malaise trap, woodland with grass, 28.xii.2011 – 11.i.2012, R. Copeland leg., 1 ♀ (RSC). RIFT VALLEY: Marich Pass field station, 1.53633°N 35.45800°E, 917 m, 20.iii–4.iv.2005, Malaise trap, low canopy riverine forest, R. Copeland leg., 1 ♀ (NMKE); Nguruman, near Sampu River, 1.90117°S 36.05040°E, 723 m, 27.viii–10.ix.2011, Malaise trap, near base of Nguruman Escarpment, R. Copeland leg., 1 ♀ (RSC). UGANDA: Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, Makerere University Biological Field Station, 0°33.823′N 30°21.490′E, 1505 m, 4–26.viii.2008, yellow pan trap, primary mid-altitude rainforest, S. van Noort leg., 1 ♀ (SAMC).

Distribution. Afrotropical, recorded from Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zimbabwe (OLMI 1984, 2006, 2009). Newly recorded from Kenya and Uganda in this paper.

Notes

Published as part of Olmi, Massimo, Copeland, Robert S., Guglielmino, Adalgisa & Icipe, 2015, An updated checklist of Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera) of Kenya and Burundi, with descriptions of thirteen new species, pp. 333-380 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (1) on page 358, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5304733

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
RSC , RSC, NMKE , SAMC
Event date
2005-03-20 , 2008-08-04 , 2011-08-27
Family
Dryinidae
Genus
Dryinus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Turner
Species
erraticus
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2005-03-20/2012-01-11 , 2008-08-04/26 , 2011-08-27/09-10
Taxonomic concept label
Dryinus erraticus (Turner, 1928) sec. Olmi, Copeland, Guglielmino & Icipe, 2015

References

  • TURNER R. E. 1928: New Hymenoptera of the Family Bethylidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 10 1: 129 - 152.
  • OLMI M. 1984: A revision of the Dryinidae (Hymenoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 37: 1 - 1913.