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Afrephialtes Benoit

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

Afrephialtes Benoit 1953. Tyep species: Ephialtes navus Benoit 1953.

 

Afrephialtes navus (Tosquinet,1896)

Distribution

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Afrotropical: Guinea, Liberia. Indo-Australian: China, India, Indonesia, Myanmar,  Philippines, Sri Lanka. Palaearctic: Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Nepal, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, United Kingdom.

Biology

 Hosts: Cryptorhynchus lapathi (Curculionidae), Hypsipyla robusta (Pyralidae), Lixus brachyrhinus (Curculionidae), Ostrinia kasmirica (Pyralidae), Sesia spheciformis (Sesiidae), Synanthedon formicaeformis (Sesiidae)

Reference

 Benoit, P.L.G. 1953. Notes Ichneumonologiques Africaines V. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 48:81-88.

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