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Hypsicera rufipes (Cameron)

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

Plesioexochus femoralis Cameron, 1905. Holotype: in The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Stellenbosch (South Africa).

Junior synonym of Hypsicera femoralis (Geoffroy, 1785)

Hypsicera femoralis=mufipes 248b Hypsicera femoralis=mufipes 248a
Hypsicera femoralis=mufipes 248c Hypsicera femoralis=mufipes 248d
Hypsicera femoralis=mufipes 248e Hypsicera femoralis 248a

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Hosts: Anobium pertinax (Anobiidae), Choristoneura murinana (Tortricidae).

Reference

Cameron, P. 1905. On some new genera and species of Hymenoptera from Cape Colony and Transvaal. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 15:195-257.

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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