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Costifrons Townes

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

Costifrons Townes 1970. Type species: Costifrons rufibasis Townes 1970.

 

Costifrons kolleri (Cameron,1912)

  Costifrons obesus (Tosquinet,1896)
Costifrons_parvidens_HOLOTYPE

Costifrons parvidens (Cameron,1906)

 

 

Costifrons pernix (Tosquinet,1896)

 

Costifrons pulcher (Szépligeti,1916)

  Costifrons rufibasis Townes,1970
  Costifrons rufolineatus (Cameron,1912)

 

Costifrons severus (Tosquinet,1896)

 

Costifrons testaceus (Morley,1916)

Distribution

Costifrons_map

Egypt, Siere Leone, Togo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Tanzania, South Africa

Biology

 Host: Drendrolimus sp. (Lasiocampidae)

Reference

 Townes, H.K. 1970. The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 2. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. No.12.(1969) 537pp.

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