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Euryophion Cameron

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

Euryophion Cameron 1906. Type species: Euryophion nigripennis Cameron 1906 & Viereck 1914.

 

Euryophion adustus (Townes,1971)

Euryophion_ikuthanus_HOLOTYPE

Euryophion ikuthanus (Kriechbaumer,1901)

 
 

Euryophion meridionalis (Morley,1912)

Euryophion_nigripennis_HOLOTYPE

Euryophion nigripennis Cameron,1906

 
 

Euryophion latipennis (Kirby,1896)

 

Euryophion pisinnus Gauld & Mitchell,1978

 

Euryophion variegatus Gauld & Mitchell,1978

Distribution

Euryophion_map

Afrotropical: Niger, Chad, Senegal, Sierre Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Central African Repblic, Ethiopia, Congo, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Oriental: India

Biology

 Hosts: Acanthocampa belina (Saturniidae), Buneae caffraria (Saturniidae), Imbrasia macrothyris (Saturniidae), Janomima westwoodi (Eupterotidae), Lobobunaea paratyrrhene (Saturniidae), Usta terpsichore (Saturnaiidae)

Reference

 Cameron, P. 1906. Descriptions of new species of parasitic Hymenoptera chiefly in the collection of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum. 5:17-186. missing 18-79

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