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Acampsohelconinae

of the Afrotropical Region

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Braconidae)

Acampsohelconinae Tobias, 1987

Classification

 

Afrocampsis

Biology

Endoparasitoids of beetle larvae (Chrysomelidae and Curculionidae).

Distribution

Cameroon, Central African Republic.

Indo-Australian: Canalicephalus

Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental: Urosigalphus.

Fossil genus †Acampsohelcon

Reference

Tobias, V.I. 1987. New taxa of Braconidae from Baltic amber (Hymenoptera). Entomologicheskoye Obozreniye. 66(4): 845-859. [Entomological Review. 67(4):18-32].

Yu D.S., van Achterberg, K., Horstmann, K. 2011. World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Available from Vancouver, Canada: Taxapad. www.taxapad.com

Credits

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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