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Osprynchotus Spinola

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

Osprynchotus Spinola 1841. Type species: Osprynchotus capensis Spinola 1841.

Osprynchotus_ethiopicus_HOLOTYPE

Osprynchotus ethiopicus Ghigi,1911

 
 

Osprynchotus flavipes Brullé,1846

 

Osprynchotus gigas Kriechbaumer,1894
 

Osprynchotus gueinzii (Taschenberg,1872)

 

Osprynchotus kingi Wilkinson,1930

 

Osprynchotus macrorhynchus Ghigi,1911

 

Osprynchotus moeroi Ghigi,1911

 

Osprynchotus pulcherrimus (Kirby,1900)

 

Osprynchotus objurgator (Fabricius,1781)

 

Osprynchotus somalicus Masi,1941

Osprynchotus_capensis_HOLOTYPE Osprynchotus violator (Thunberg,1789)

Distribution

Osprynchotus_map

Afrotropical: Senegal, Guinea, Sierre Leone, Togo, Nigeria, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Yemen,  Somalia, Gabon, Congo, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Palearctic: Egypt

Biology

Hosts: Sceliphron sp. (Sphecidae), Sceliphron spirifex (Sphecidae), Vespa calida (Vespidae), Vespa cornuta (Vespidae)

Reference

 Spinola, M. 1841. G. Osprynchote. Osprynchotus. Guerin's Magasine de Zoologie. Insectes. XI. Pl.75:1-6.

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