Encardia nigriceps Tosquinet

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

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

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. Tosquinet, J. 1896. Contributions à la faune entomologique de l'Afrique. Ichneumonides. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 5: 1-430.
Credits	Photographs by Aisha Mayekiso © Iziko Museums of South Africa. Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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