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Lepiscelus distans (Seyrig)

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

Eremotylus distans Seyrig, 1935. Holotype: in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN) (MNHN). Type locality:

Non-type in MRAC imaged 2003 with hand held Nikon FE2 SLR, 105 mm macro lens and 35mm slide film.
 

Distribution

Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

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.

Seyrig, A. 1935. Mission scientifique de l'Omo. Tome III. Fascicule 18. Hymenoptera, II. Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae, Pimplinae, Tryphoninae et Ophioninae. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris 4: 1-100.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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