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Costifrons testaceus (Morley)

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

Goryphus testaceus Morley 1916. Holotype: in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: 

Distribution

Costifrons testaceus_map

South Africa.

Biology

 Host: Dendrolimus sp. (Bombycoidea).

Reference

 Morley, C. 1916. On some South African Ichneumonidae in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum. 15:353-400.

Credits

Photographs and 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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