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Species Mengenilla gracilipes (Lea, 1910)

  • Austrostylops gracilipes Lea, A.M. 1910. On a new genus of Stylopidae from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 4, Dec. 1910: 514-516 [515].
    Type data:
     Status unknown, Australia, WA.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Endemic, SW coastal, WA; known only from type locality.


Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic, host (unknown), male—volant, parasitoid.

Extra Ecological Information

Captured at light trap, on grease (female unknown).

 

General References

Kinzelbach, R.K. 1971. Morphologische Befunde an Fächerflüglern und ihre phylogenetische Bedeutung (Insecta: Strepsiptera). Zoologica (Stuttgart) 41(119): 129-256 [149] (as Mengenilla gracilipes (Lea, 1910))