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Cryptus australis Guérin-Ménéville

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

Cryptus australis Guérin-Ménéville 1848. Holotype: in Albany Museum, Grahamstown. Type locality: Grahamstown. Synonyms: Cryptus fumipennis (Cameron 1905), Cryptus spilocephalus Cameron 1906, Cryptus tuberculatus Cameron 1905.

Distribution

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Ethopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa

Biology

 Host: Ascotis selenaria recriprocaria (Geometroidea)

Reference

 Guerin, . 1848.  In: Lefebyre "Voyage en Abyssinie." (4)6:346-348.

Credits

Photographs Simon van Noort © Albany Museum, Grahamstown

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