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Afrosphincta Benoit

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

Afrosphincta Benoit, 1953. Type species: Afrosphincta congica Benoit, 1953.

Synonym of Schizopyga Gravenhorst, 1829. Synonym by Gauld  & Dubois (2006).

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Benoit, P.L.G. 1953. Sur des Polysphinctini du Congo belge (Ichneum. - Pimpl.). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 47:137-141.

Gauld, I & Dubois, J 2006. Phylogeny of the Polysphincta group of genera (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Pimplinae): A taxonomic revision of spider ectoparasitoids. Systematic Entomology. 31. 529 - 564. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00334.x

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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