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Conganteon vulcanicum Benoit 1951

  • 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

7. Conganteon vulcanicum Benoit, 1951b **

Material examined. New records. KENYA: EASTERN: Kibwesi Forest, 2°27.90′S 37°54.91′E, 13–20.xi.1999, Malaise trap, R. Copeland leg., 1J (RSC); Kasaala area, 2.07846°S 38.22530°E, 740 m, 28.xi–4.xii.2013, six-meter Malaise trap, just inside isolated woodland patch, J. Bukhebi & R. Copeland leg., 1 J 1 ♀ (RSC). Rift Valley: Oloitokitok, 2.94456°S 37.50714°E, 1853 m, 30.ix–14.x.2011, Malaise trap, edge of indigenous forest, R. Copeland leg., 1 ♀ (NMKE). WESTERN: Kakamega District, Kisere Forest, 28.vi–19.vii.2001, Manfred Kraemer leg., ex Michael von Tschirnhaus collection, 1 ♀ (MOLC). UGANDA: WESTERN REGION: Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, Makerere University Biological Field Station, 0°33.891′N 30°21.468′E, 1506 m, 4–26.viii.2008, yellow pan trap, primary mid-altitude rainforest, S. van Noort leg., 1 ♀ (SAMC).

Distribution. Afrotropical, recorded from Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar and Rwanda (OLMI 1984, 1994b), newly recorded here from Kenya and Uganda.

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 340, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5304733

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References

  • BENOIT P. L. G. 1951 b: Exploration du Parc National Albert. Mission G. F. de Witte (1933 - 1935). Fasc. 73. Dryinidae (Hymenoptera Aculeata), Evaniidae (Hymenoptera Terebrantia). Hayez, Bruxelles, 26 pp.
  • 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.