Xestopelta alutacea Benoit

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

Xestopelta alutacea Benoit 1955. Holotype: in Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren. Type locality: 

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo

Biology

Host: unknown

Reference

Benoit, P.L.G. 1955. Contributions a l'étude des Ichneumonidae africains (Hymenoptera). I. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Sciences Zoologiques. 38:1-55.

Credits

HOLOTYPE Xestopelta alutacea Photographs Simon van Noort (Iziko) © Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren. 

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