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Enicospilus rufus (Brullé)

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

Ophion rufus Brullé 1846. Holotype: in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Type locality:

 

Ophion longescutellatus Kriechbaumer 1894. (junior synonym) (Synonomy by Gauld & Mitchell 1978)

Distribution

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Nigeria, Congo, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Seychelles Islands, Madagscar, Mauritius Is., Reunion, Is., Rodriques Island, South Africa

Biology

 Hosts: Agrapha limbirena (Noctuidae), Trigonodes hyppasia (Noctuidae)

Reference

 Brullé, M.A. 1846. Tome Quatrième. Des Hyménoptères. Les Ichneumonides. In: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau A. "Histoire Naturelles des Insectes." Paris. 680 pp. pp. 56-324. (copied 55-324+index) missing Braconidae

Kriechbaumer, J. 1894. Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae a medico nautico Dr. Joh. Brauns in itinere secundo ad oras Africae lecta. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 39:297-318.

Credits

 HOLOTYPE Ophion longescutellatus Photographs Simon van Noort (Iziko) © Transvaal Museum, Pretoria.

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