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Crytea tricolor (Kriechbaumer)

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

Hoplismenus tricolor Kriechbaumer 1894. Holotype: in Transvaal Museum, Pretoria. Type locality: Insel Scherbro, Sierre Leone.

Distribution

Crytea tricolor_map

Sierra Leone

Biology

Host: unknown

Reference

Kriechbaumer, J. 1894. Hymenoptera Ichneumonidea a medico nautico Dr. Joh. Brauns in itinere ad oras Africae occidentalis lecta. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 39:43-68.

Credits

HOLOTYPE Crytea tricolor Photographs Simon van Noort (Iziko) © Transvaal Museum, Pretoria. 

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