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Cryptus australis Guérin-Ménéville
(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa
(animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera;
Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae;
Subfamily: Cryptinae; Tribe: Cryptini; Genus: Cryptus)
Cryptus
australis Guérin-Ménéville, 1848. Lectotype
lost? Type locality: South Africa.
Synonyms:
Cryptus capensis
Cameron, 1904,
Cryptus erythrogaster Holmgren,1868,
Cryptus
fumipennis (Cameron 1905),
Cryptus hottentottus Schulz, 1906, Cryptus labilis
Cameron, 1905, Cryptus muricatus Tosquinet,1896, Cryptus perturbator
Schulz, 1906, Cryptus rufiventris Szépligeti, 1916, Cryptus simillimus
Cameron, 1906,
Cryptus spilocephalus Cameron
1906,
Cryptus
tuberculatus Cameron 1905. |
Distribution
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Ethiopia, Kenya,
Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.
Also Palaearctic region: Iran. |
Biology
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Host: Ascotis selenaria
recriprocaria (Geometroidea). |
References
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Cameron, P. 1905.
On some undescribed genera and species of parasitic Hymenoptera from Cape Colony
and Transvaal, South Africa. (Hym.) Zeitschrift für Systematische
Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 5: 338-343.
Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1848. Ordre des
Hymenopteres. In: Lefebyre "Voyage en Abyssinie." (4)6: 346-348.
Tosquinet, J. 1896. Contributions à
la faune entomologique de l'Afrique. Ichneumonides. Mémoires de la Société
Entomologique de Belgique 5: 1-430. |
Credits
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Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of
South Africa). |
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