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Hypsicera obsoleta (Benoit)

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

Metacoelus obsoletus Benoit, 1955. Holotype: in Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC). Type locality: N. Lac Kivu, Rwankwi (DRC).
Hypsicera obsoleta 364b Hypsicera obsoleta 364a
Hypsicera obsoleta 364c Hypsicera obsoleta 364d
Hypsicera obsoleta 364e  

Distribution

Hypsicera obsoleta_map

Democratic Republic of Congo.

Biology

Host: unknown.

Reference

Benoit, P.L.G. 1955. Nouvelle contribution à la connaissance des Exochini africains (Hymen., Ichn.). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 51: 49-58.

Credits

 Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). Images taken with a Nikon DE2 SLR camera and Nikon 105mm macro lens using 35 mm slide film in 2003.
 

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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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