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

Holcobracon erythraspis Cameron, 1909. Holotype: . Type Locality: Namibia.

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, South Africa (new record here), Uganda, Yemen.

Biology

Unknown, but likely to be parasitoids of twig-boring Coleoptera larvae.

References

Cameron, P. 1909. On some African species of Braconinae in the Royal Berlin Zoological Museum. Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab 30: 1-27.

Quicke, D.L.J. 1991. Ovipositor mechanics of the Braconine wasp genus Zaglyptogastra and the Ichneumonid genus Pristomerus. Journal of Natural History 25(4): 971-977.

Quicke, D.L.J. 1991. The African species of Zaglyptogastra (Hymenoptera) with a checklist of world species. Journal of Natural History 25: 755-771.

Credits

Photographs and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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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