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Afrobystra Heinrich

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

Afrobystra Heinrich 1968. Type species: Limnerium sinuatops Heinrich 1968.

 

Afrobystra meridionalis Heinrich, 1968

 

Afrobystra sinuata (Szépligeti, 1908)  
 

Afrobystra sinuatops Heinrich, 1968

  Afrobystra superbula Heinrich, 1968

Afrobystra variata (Tosquinet, 1896)

Distribution

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Ethiopia, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa.

Biology

Endoparasitoids of mostly Lepidoptera, but also Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.

Reference

Heinrich, G.H. 1968. Synopsis and reclassification of the Ichneumoninae Stenopneusticae of Africa south of Sahara (Hym.).Vol.V. Farmington State College Press. pp.943-1258.

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