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Dicamptus Szépligeti

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

Dicamptus Szépligeti 1905. Type species: Dicamptus giganteus Szépligeti 1905 & Viereck, 1914.

ClassificationIdentification keys

 

Dicamptus banqui Delobel, 1976

Dicamptus bantu Delobel, 1976

Ophion_braunsii

Dicamptus braunsii (Kriechbaumer, 1894)

 

Dicamptus betsileo Delobel, 1976

Dicamptus_crassellus_HOLOTYPE

Dicamptus crassellus (Morley, 1917)

 

Dicamptus kelnerae Delobel, 1976

Dicamptus maxipol Rousse & van Noort, 2014
 

Dicamptus neavei Gauld & Mitchell, 1978

Ophion_pellucidus

Dicamptus pellucides (Kriechbaumer, 1894)

 

Dicamptus pulchellus (Morley, 1912)

 

Dicamptus seyrigi Delobel, 1976

 

Dicamptus tampus Gauld & Mitchell, 1978

 

Dicamptus townesi Delobel, 1976

 

Dicamptus xhosa Delobel, 1976

Distribution

Dicamptus_map

Afrotropical region: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Indo-Australian region: China, India, Indonesia, Japan.

Biology

Hosts: Dendrolimus punctatus (Lasiocampidae), Dendrolimus spectabilis (Lasiocampidae), Eupterote sp. (Eupterotidae).

References

Gauld, I.D. & Mitchell, P.A. 1978. The taxonomy, distribution and host preferences of African parasitic wasps of the subfamily Ophioninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Slough, England, 287 pp.

Morley, C. 1912. A revision of the Ichneumonidae based on the collection in the British Museum (Natural History) with descriptions of new genera and species Part I. Tribes Ophionides and Metopiides. British Museum, London. 88 pp.

Rousse, P. & van Noort, S. 2014. Afrotropical Ophioninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae): an update of Gauld & Mitchell's revision, including two new species and an interactive matrix identification key. ZooKeys 456: 59–73. doi:10.3897/zookeys.456.8140

Szépligeti, G. 1905. Hymenoptera. Ichneumonidae (Gruppe Ophionoidea), subfam. Pharsaliinae-Porizontinae. Genera Insectorum 34: 1-68.

Credits

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

 

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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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