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Enicospilus betanimenus (Saussure)

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

Ophion betanimenus Saussure 1892. Holotype: in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Type locality:

Distribution

Enicospilus betanimenus_map

Afrotropical: Senegal, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, Mozambique, Madagascar, South Africa, Oceanic: Reunion Is.

Biology

 Hosts: Achaea faber (Noctuidae), Dysgonia pudica (Noctuidae), Dysgonia triplocyma (Noctuidae), Heliophisma klugii (Noctuidae), Tatorinia rufipennis (Noctuidae)

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