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Mantiphaga Ferrière

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Torymidae, Subfamily: Toryminae)

Mantiphaga Ferrière 1955. Type species: Podagrion pseudocreobotrae Ferrière 1955.

 

 

Mantiphaga apperti (Risbec, 1954)

 

Mantiphaga bekiliensis (Risbec, 1956)

 

Mantiphaga capensis Ferrière, 1958

 

Mantiphaga gongylusae (Risbec, 1951)

 

Mantiphaga hoplocoryphae (Risbec, 1951)

 

Mantiphaga pseudocreobotrae (Risbec, 1951)

Distribution

Mantiphaga_map

Senegal, South Africa, Madagascar

Biology

Hosts: Blepharodes sudanensis (Mantidae), Empusa guttula (Mantidae), Gongylus guttatus (Mantidae), Hoplocorypha (Mantidae), Matidae (mantid), Pseudocreobotra (Mantidae), Pseudocreobotra ocellata (Mantidae), Tarachodes saussurei (Mantidae)

Reference

Ferrière, C. 1955. Les genres des Podagrionidae d'Afrique. Mémoirs de la Sociéte Royale Entomologie de Belgique. 27:207-216.

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