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Atropha Kriechbaumer

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

Atropha Kriechbaumer, 1894. Type species: Atropha quadriannulata Kriechbaumer, 1894.

Atropha_amabilis_LECTOTYPE

Atropha amabilis Seyrig, 1932

Atropha babaulti Seyrig, 1935

 

Atropha bredoi Benoit, 1953

Atropha fragilis Seyrig, 1932

 

Atropha gibbosa Benoit, 1955

Atropha gracilis Seyrig 1932

Atropha_leucostoma_HOLOTYPE

Atropha leucostoma (Cameron, 1912)

Atropha_luteipes_HOLOTYPE

Atropha luteipes Benoit, 1953

Atropha_luteoclypeata_HOLOTYPE

Atropha luteoclypeata Benoit, 1955

 

Atropha magnifica Benoit, 1955

 

Atropha mansuetor Benoit, 1955

Atropha olbrechtsi Benoit, 1955

 

Atropha quadriannula Kriechbaumer, 1894

 

Atropha sectator Benoit, 1955

 

Atropha terribilis Benoit, 1955

 

Atropha tricolor (Szépligeti, 1908)

Atropha vernalis Seyrig, 1932

Distribution

Restricted to Afrotropical region: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Benoit, P.L.G. 1953. Nouveaux Ichneumonidae du Congo belge. Lambillionea. 53(9-10): 76-78.

Benoit, P.L.G. 1953. Ichneumonidae - Pimplinae du National Museum of southern Rhodesia. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 89: 278-281.

Benoit, P.L.G. 1955. Contributions a l'étude des Ichneumonidae africains (Hymenoptera). I. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Sciences Zoologiques 38: 1-55.

Cameron, P. 1912. On the Hymenoptera from Belgian Congo in the Congo Museum, Tervueren. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 56: 357-401.

Kriechbaumer, J. 1894. Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae a medico nautico Dr. John Brauns in itinere secundo ad oras Africae lecta. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 39: 297-318.

Seyrig, A. 1932. Les Ichneumonides de Madagascar. I Ichneumonidae Pimplinae. Mémoires de l'Académie Malgache. Fascicule 11. 183pp.

Seyrig, A. 1935. Mission scientifique de l'Omo. Tome III. Fascicule 18. Hymenoptera, II. Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae, Pimplinae, Tryphoninae et Ophioninae. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. 4: 1-100.

Szépligeti, G. 1908. Hymenoptera: Braconidae & Ichneumonidae. In: Sjostedts Y. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen. pp 25-96.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or photographs © Filippo di Giovanni (University of Pisa), or photographs © Muséum national d'Historie naturelle, Paris (MNHN).

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

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