Afrotremex xylophagus Goulet, 2014

van Noort, Simon & Goulet, Henri, 2015, New distribution records for the rare genus Afrotremex Pasteels (Siricidae: Hymenoptera) and provision of interactive Lucid identification keys to species, Biodiversity Data Journal 3, pp. 7160-7160 : 7160

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e7160

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scientific name

Afrotremex xylophagus Goulet, 2014
status

 

Afrotremex xylophagus Goulet, 2014

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: W.H. Patterson; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; disposition: damaged; Taxon: scientificName: Afrotremexxylophagus Goulet, 2014; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Siricidae; genus: Afrotremex; specificEpithet: xylophagus; scientificNameAuthorship: Goulet, 2014; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: country: Ghana; locality: Aburi ; verbatimLocality: Aburi; Identification: identifiedBy: Henri Goulet; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: eventDate: 1912-1913; year: 1912; 1913; verbatimEventDate: 1912-13; Record Level: modified: 10/17/2015; language: en; collectionID: BMNH; institutionCode: BMNH; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

See Goulet 2014. Photographs of the additional male specimen are provided in Figs 3, 4.

Distribution

Cameroon, Ghana

Biology

Unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Siricidae

Genus

Afrotremex