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Pristomerus cunctator Tosquinet

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

Pristomerus cunctator Tosquinet, 1896. Lectotype: in Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany (MNHU). Type locality: Maputo, Mozambique.

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

Distribution

Madagascar, Mozambique, Senegal.

Biology

Five specimens collected by B. Sigwald in 1962 emerged from lycaenid cocoons on Crotalaria sp. (Leguminosae); three of these cocoons were situated inside pods (Rousse et al. 2013).

References

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

Rousse, P., Villemant, C. & Seyrig, A. 2013. Ichneumonid wasps from Madagascar. VI. The genus Pristomerus (Hymenopetra: Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae). European Journal of Taxonomy 49: 1-38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.49

Tosquinet, J. 1896. Contributions à la faune entomologique de l'Afrique. Ichneumonides. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 5: 1-430.

Credits

Photographs by Agnièle Touret-Alby © MNHN (specimens database http://coldb.mnhn.fr). Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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