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Eriborus pomonellae (Cameron)

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

Hymenobosmina pomonellae Cameron 1906. Holotype: in Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: Groot Constantia, Cape Town.

Distribution

Distribution maps/South Africa

South Africa

Biology

Parasitoid of Codling moth, Cydia pomonella (Linnaeus 1758), Tortricidae.

Reference

Cameron, P. 1906. Descriptions of new species of parasitic Hymenoptera chiefly in the collection of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum 5: 17-186.

Credits

HOLOTYPE Eriborus pomonellae Photographs Simon van Noort (Iziko) © Natural History Museum, London.

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