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Echthrodelphax migratorius Benoit 1954

  • 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

63. Echthrodelphax migratorius Benoit, 1954 **

Material examined. New records: KENYA: COAST: Kasigau Mtn., 3.82667°S 38.64982°E, 1117 m, indigenous forest, Malaise trap next to spring in forest, 30.vi–13.vii.2011, R. Copeland leg., 1 ♀ (RSC); Boni Forest area, near Bodhei Village, 1.85551°S 40.69889°E, 30 m, 6–18.vi.2013, 2 m Malaise trap, mixed grass- and woodland, J. Bukhebi & R. Copeland leg., 1 ♀ (RSC). EASTERN: Ngaia Forest, bottom of forest, 0.32442°N 38.05038°E, 1057 m, 24.xii.2011 – 7.i.2012, Malaise trap, inside indigenous forest, R. Copeland leg., 2 ♀♀ (1 in NMKE, 1 in RSC).

Distribution. Recorded from many Afrotropical countries, from the Cape Verde Islands, Niger and Senegal to Madagascar and Somalia, in addition to Oman and Egypt (OLMI 1984, 1994b, 2006).

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 pages 363-364, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5304733

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References

  • BENOIT P. L. G. 1954: Monographie des Dryinides Malgaches (Hym. - Acul.). Memoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar, Serie E 4: 383 - 430.
  • OLMI M. 1984: A revision of the Dryinidae (Hymenoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 37: 1 - 1913.
  • OLMI M. 1994 b: New species of Dryinidae from Madagascar (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula Entomologica (N. S.) 17: 1 - 12.