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Aphelopus wittei Benoit

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Dryinidae; Subfamily: Aphelopinae; Genus: Aphelopus)

Aphelous wittei Benoit 1951. Holotype: female in Musée Royal de l'Afrique centrale, Tervuren. Type locality: Kashwa, Democratic Republic of Congo

 

 

Distribution

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Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Madagascar, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, South Africa, Uganda, Zaire, Zimbabwe 

Biology

Host: unknown

Reference

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

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