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Dicamptus rufus (Kriechbaumer)

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

Ophion rufus Kriechbaumer, 1894. Holotype: in Transvaal Museum, Pretoria (TMSA). Type locality: Zanzibar (Tanzania). Synonymy by Gauld & Mitchell, 1978.

Junior synonym of Dicamptus braunsii (Kriechbaumer, 1894). Holotype: in Transvaal Museum, Pretoria (TMSA). Type locality: Insel Scherbro, Sierra Leone.

Distribution

Tanzania (Zanzibar).

Biology

 Host: unknown.

Reference

 Kriechbaumer, J. 1894. Hymenoptera Ichneumonidea a medico nautico Dr. Joh. Brauns in itinere ad oras Africae occidentalis lecta. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrif. 39: 43-68.

Credits

 Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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