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Encardia saga Tosquinet

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

Herus sagus Tosquinet, 1903. Holotype in Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Brussels. Type locality: Zukungu, democratic Republic of Congo. Junior synonym of Encardia picta Tosquinet, 1896.
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Distribution

 

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Biology

Parasitoids of Emperor moth larvae (Saturniidae).

References

 

Tosquinet, J. 1903. Ichneumonides nouveaux. (Travail posthume). Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 10: 1-403.  

Credits

 

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

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

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