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Pristomerus africator Aubert & Shaumar

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

Pristomerus africator Aubert & Shaumar, 1978. Holotype: in Musée Zoologique, Switzerland. Type locality

Junior synonym of Pristomerus pallidus (Kriechbaumer, 1884). Synonymy by Rousse & van Noort, 2015.

Distribution

Ivory Coast, Senegal, Sierra Leone. Also Palaearctic region (Egypt, Italy).

Biology

Host: Maliarpha separatella (Peoriinae).

References

Aubert, J.F. and Shaumar, N. 1978. Supplément aux Ichneumonides d'Egypte. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de Mulhouse. 1978(avril-juin):13-20.

Rousse, P. & van Noort, S. 2015. Revision of the Afrotropical species of Pristomerus (Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae), with description of 31 new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 124: 1-129. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.124

Credits

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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