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Enicospilus dubius (Tosquinet)

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

Ophion dubius Tosquinet 1896. Holotype: in Zoologisches Museum, Berlin. Type locality:

Distribution

Enicospilus dubius_map

Ivory Coast, Togo, Ghana, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Madagascar, South Africa

Biology

Hosts: Anomis leona (Noctuidae), Chrysodeixis chalcites (Noctuidea)

Reference

Tosquinet, J. 1896. Contributions à la faune entomologique de l'Afrique. Ichneumonides. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 5:1-430.

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