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Charops spinitarsis Cameron 

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

Charops spinitarsis Cameron 1905. Holotype: in Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: Stellenbosch, South Africa

Distribution

Charops_spinitarsis_Distribution

Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa

Biology

Host: Aloa moloneyi (Druce) Arctiidae (Lepidoptera).

Reference

Cameron, P. 1905. On some new genera and species of Hymenoptera from Cape Colony and Transvaal. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 15: 195-257.

Credits

HOLOTYPE Charops spinitarsis Photographs Simon van Noort (Iziko) © Natural History Museum, London.

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