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Gessia flavipennis (Cameron)

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

Idiostoma flavipennis Cameron 1905. Holotype: in The Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: Cape

Distribution

Gessia_flavipennis_map

South Africa

Biology

Host: unknown

Reference

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.

Credits

HOLOTYPE Idiostoma flavipennis Photographs Simon van Noort (Iziko) © The Natural History Museum, London.

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