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Eurycryptus_spilocephalus

Eurycryptus Cameron

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

Eurycryptus Cameron, 1901. Type species: Eurycryptus laticeps Cameron, 1901.

 

Eurycryptus fondamentalis (Seyrig, 1952)  

 

Eurycryptus laticeps (Cameron, 1901) (Australia, Papua New Guinea)

Eurycryptus_spilocephalus

Eurycryptus spilocephalus (Cameron, 1911)

Distribution

Madagascar, South Africa.

Also Indo-Australian: Australia, China, Indonesia, India, Japan, Malaysia, Papa New Guinea, Philippines.

Biology

Host: Trypoxylon obsonator (Sphecidae).

Reference

Cameron, P. 1901. On Hymenoptera collected in New Britain by Dr. Arthur Willey. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1901(1): 224-248.

Cameron, P. 1911. On the parasitic Hymenoptera collected by Mr. A.J.T. Janse, Transvaal. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 2: 173-217.

Morley, C. 1917. On some South African Ichneumonidae in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum 17: 191-229.

Seyrig, A. 1952. Les Ichneumonides de Madagascar. IV Ichneumonidae Cryptinae. Mémoires de l'Académie Malgache Fascicule XIX. 213 pp.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (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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