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Biroia neopulchripennis Tucker

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

Cremnops pulchripennis Szépligeti,1905. Holotype: Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (NHRS). Type Locality: Cameroon.

Biroia neopulchripennis Tucker, 2015. Secondary homonym Biroia pulchripennis (Szépligeti) [original combination = Cremnops pulchripennis Szépligeti 1905]; primary homonym Biroia pulchripennis (Cameron 1887) [original combination = Microdus pulchripennis Cameron].

Distribution

Cameroon.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Tucker, E.M. & Sharkey, M.J. 2015. Spring-cleaning of African agathidines: new combinations for five species previously placed in Cremnops Förster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Zootaxa 3946: 133–138.  doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3946.1.7.

Credits

Photographs © Erika Tucker (University of Kentucky).


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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