HomeWasp classificationExpeditionsLinksFigWebBiodiversity ExplorerPermits

 

Encardia fuscipennis Cameron

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Anomaloninae; Genus: Encardia)

Ctenotoma fuscipennis Cameron, 1906. Holotype in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: South Africa. Junior synonym of Encardia picta Tosquinet, 1896.

HOLOTYPE Ctenotoma fuscipennis (SAMC)
Encardia_fuscipennis_HOLOTYPE Encardia_fuscipennis_HOLOTYPE
Encardia_fuscipennis_HOLOTYPE Encardia_fuscipennis_HOLOTYPE
Encardia_fuscipennis_HOLOTYPE  

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Cameron, P. 1906. Descriptions of new species of parasitic Hymenoptera chiefly in the collection of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum 5: 17-186.

Credits

 

Photographs by Aisha Mayekiso © Iziko Museums of South Africa.

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

 

Next genus: Parania        Next species: Encardia nigriceps