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

Distribution

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 by Aisha Mayekiso © Iziko Museums of South Africa.

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

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