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Venturia jordanae Fitton 

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

Venturia jordanae Fitton 1994. Holotype: in Natural History Museum, London. Type locality

Distribution

Distribution maps/Sierra Leone Ivory C kenya

Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Kenya

Biology

Koinobiont endoparasitoid of the African white rice borer, Maliarpha separatella Ragonot 1888 (Pyralidae, Lepidoptera).

Reference

Polaszek, A., Fitton, M.G., Bianchi, G. and Huddleston, T. 1994. The parasitoids of the African white rice borer, Maliarpha separatella Ragonot (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 84: 65-90.

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