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Tycherus amatola Rousse & van Noort

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

Tycherus amatola Rousse & van Noort, 2013. Holotype: in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: Hogsback, Eastern Cape (South Africa).

Distribution

South Africa (Eastern Cape).

Biology

 Unknown.

Etymology

Named after the type locality in Amatola Mountains, meaning “place of many calves” in the Xhosa local language.

Reference

Rousse P, van Noort S & Diller E. 2013. Revision of the Afrotropical Phaeogenini (Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), with description of a new genus and twelve new species. Zookeys 354: 1-85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.354.5968.

Credits

 Photographs by Pascal Rousse © Iziko Museums of South Africa.
 

Next genus: Calleupalamus

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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

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