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Pristomerus keyka Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig

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

Pristomerus keyka Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig, 2013. Holotype: in California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco (CASC). Type localityNamoraka National Park, 16°28’ S, 45°20’ E, Madagascar.


Paratype female (MNHN)
 

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, South Africa.

Biology

Unknown.

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) or photographs by Pascal Rousse © Iziko Museums of South Africa. 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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