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Cymodusa Holmgren

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

Cymodusa Holmgren, 1859. Type species: Cymodusa leucocera Holmgren, 1859, by original designation

Distribution

South Africa.

Also Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental, Palaearctic regions..

Biology

Endoparasitoids of Lepidoptera larvae.

References

Vas, Z. 2021.  First record of Cymodusa Holmgren from the Afrotropical region with the description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Campopleginae). Zootaxa 5067: 447–450. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5067.3.8

Yu, D.S., van Achterberg, K. & Horstmann, K. 2012. World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxonomy, Biology, Morphology and Distribution. CD/DVD. Taxapad, Vancouver, Canada.

Credits

Photographs © ZOLTÁN VAS (Hungarian Natural History Museum).

Map illustration © 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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