Distribution
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Widely distributed throughout subsaharan Africa,
including Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion (Gauld & Mitchell 1978; Rousse
& Villemant, 2012). |
Biology
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Host: Mythimna
sp. (Rousse & Villemant, 2012) and Sesamia calamistis
(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Comments. Mythimna loreyi is not
reported in Reunion (Martiré & Rochat 2008). Cirad’s host record might
be a misidentification with another, local, Mythimna species (Rousse
& Villemant, 2012). |
References
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Cameron,
P. 1911. On the parasitic Hymenoptera collected by Mr. A.J.T. Janse,
Transvaal. Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 2:173-217.
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.
Rousse, P. & Villemant, C. 2012.
Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local
Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species.
Zootaxa 3278: 1–57. |
Credits
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HOLOTYPE Henicospilus
transvaalensis Photographs
Aisha Mayekiso © Iziko Museums. |
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Next species: Enicospilus trilineatus |
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