Revision of world species of the genus Heptascelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Platygastridae)

Th e world species of the genus Oreiscelio Kieff er (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae) are revised. Nineteen species are recognized, of which four were previously named and are redescribed: O. sechellensis Kieffer (Seychelles), O. turneri Nixon (Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe), O. alluaudi (Risbec) (Madagascar) and O. rugosus Sundholm (South Africa). Th e following species are described as new: O. aequalis Talamas, sp. n. (Central African Republic); O. badius Talamas & Johnson, sp. n. (Botswana); O. coracinus Talamas & Johnson, sp. n. (Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe); O. cultrarius Talamas, sp. n. (Tanzania); O. gryphus Talamas & Johnson, sp. n. (Cameroon, Central African Republic); O. iommii Talamas, sp. n. (South Africa); O. magnipennis Talamas, sp. n. (Kenya, Uganda); O. majikununuensis van Noort, sp. n. (Tanzania); O. megadontus Talamas, sp. n. (Tanzania); O. naevus Talamas & Johnson, sp. n. (Madagascar); O. paradoxus Talamas, sp. n. (Uganda, Zimbabwe); O. rostratus Talamas & Masner, sp. n. (Madagascar); O. scapularis Talamas, sp. n. (Madagascar); O. zulu Talamas & Polaszek, sp. n. (South Africa); O. zuzkae Talamas & Johnson, sp. n. (Benin, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, South Africa, ZooKeys 6: 1-68 (2009) doi: 10.3897/zookeys.6.67 www.pensoftonline.net/zookeys Copyright Elijah J. Talamas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Launched to accelerate biodiversity research A peer-reviewed open-access journal

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