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Meloboris collector (Thunberg)

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

Ichneumon collector Thunberg 1822. Holotype: in Zoologiska Institutionen, Uppsala. Type locality

Distribution

Distribution maps/South Africa

Palaearctic & South Africa (Introduced)

Biology

Parasitoid of noctuid, gelechiid and tortricid moths (Lepidoptera).

Reference

Thunberg, C.P. 1822. Ichneumonidea, Insecta Hymenoptera illustrata. Mémoires de l'Académie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint Petersbourg 8: 249-281.

Credits

HOLOTYPE Melobris collector Photographs Simon van Noort (Iziko) © Zoologiska Institutionen, Uppsala.

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