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Parania Morley

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

Parania Morley 1913. Type species: Parania nototrachoides Morley 1913.

Parania_prima_HOLOTYPE

Parania prima Gauld, 1980

 

Parania secunda Gauld, 1980

Parania_nototrachoides_LECTOTYPE

Parania tricolor (Szépligeti, 1906)

Biology

Endoparasitoids of moth (Lepidoptera) caterpillars.

References

 

Gauld, I.D. 1980. A synopsis of the Anomaloninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of sub-Saharan Africa with special reference to species of potential economic importance. Bulletin of Entomological Research 70(1): 33-41.

Morley, C. 1913. A revision of the Ichneumonidae based on the collection in the British Museum (Natural History) with descriptions of new genera and species. Part II. Tribes Rhyssides, Echthromorphides, Anomalides and Paniscides. London, British Museum. 140pp.

Szépligeti, G. 1906. Neue exotische Ichneumoniden aus der Sammlung des Ungarischen National Museums. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 4: 119-156.

Credits

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

 

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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