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Afrophion Gauld 

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

Afrophion Gauld 1979. Type species: Ophion nubilicarpus Gauld 1985.

 

Afrophion hynnis (Gauld & Mitchell, 1978)

 

Afrophion nubilicarpus (Tosquinet, 1896)

Distribution

Afrophion_map

South Africa

Biology

Host: unknown

Reference

Gauld, I.D. 1979. An analysis of the classification of the Ophion genus group (Ichneumonidae). Systematic Entomology. 5(1980):59-82.  

Gauld, I.D. 1985. The phylogeny, classification and evolution of parasitic wasps of the subfamily Ophioninae (Ichneumonidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology series. 51(2):61-185. (343)

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