Lycorina fici Seyrig

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

Lycorina (Gonioglyphus) fici Seyrig 1932. Holotype: in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN). Type locality: Bekily (Madagascar).

Gonioglyphus continentalis Benoit, 1953. Synonymy by Rousse & van Noort, 2013.

Distribution

Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Reared from Tortyra sp (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae) on leaf rolls of Ficus sp. (Seyrig, 1932).

References

Rousse, P. & van Noort, S. 2013. Revision of the Afrotropical Lycorininae (Ichneumonidae; Hymenoptera) with description of a new species from South Africa. Zootaxa 3666 (2): 252–266. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3666.2.8

Rousse, P. & van Noort, S. 2014. Revision of the Afrotropical Lycorininae (Ichneumonidae; Hymenoptera) II. Three new species and additional distribution records. Zootaxa 3884 (3): 222–234. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3884.3.2

Seyrig, A. 1932. Les Ichneumonides de Madagascar. 1. Ichneumonidae Pimplinae. Mémoires de l’Académie Malgache 11: 1–183.

Credits

Photographs © Pascal Rousse (Iziko South African Museum).

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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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