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Encardia ruficeps Tosquinet

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

Ctenotoma ruficeps Tosquinet 1896. Holotype: in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality:

Junior synonym of Encardia picta
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Distribution

Encardia ruficeps

South Africa, Zimbabwe

Biology

Host: Dinometa maputuana (Lasiocampidae)

References

Tosquinet, J. 1896. Contributions à la faune entomologique de l'Afrique. Ichneumonides. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 5: 1-430.

Credits

 

HOLOTYPE Ctenotoma ruficeps Photographs Aisha Mayekiso © Iziko Museums of Cape Town

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