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Leptophatnus faustus (Tosquinet)

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

Platylabus faustus Tosquinet 1896. Holotype: in Zoologisches Museum, Berlin. Type locality:

Leptophatnus bucephalus (junior synonym) Morley 1917. Holotype: in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality:

Distribution

Leptophatnus faustus_map

Togo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa

Biology

 Host: unknown.

Reference

Tosquinet, J. 1896. Contributions à la faune entomologique de l'Afrique. Ichneumonides. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 5:1-430.

Morley, C. 1917. On some South African Ichneumonidae in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum. 17:191-229.

Credits

 Leptophatnus faustus Photographs Aisha Mayekiso © Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town.

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
 

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Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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