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Pimpla albipalpis Cameron

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

Pimpla albipalpis Cameron 1905. Holotype: in Albany Museum, Grahamstown. Type locality: Grahamstown
Synonym. Pimpla rugosa (Benoit 1956). Holotype: in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: South Africa

Distribution

Pimpla albipalpis_map

Zimbabwe, South Africa

Biology

 Host: Cydia ponomella (Torticidae)

Reference

 Benoit, P.L.G. 1956. Ichneumonidae nouveaux ou interessants de l'Afrique du Sud. Annals of the South African Museum 43: 123-135.

Cameron, P. 1905. On the Hymenoptera of the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa (Second paper).  Records of the Albany Museum  1:185-244.

Credits

Photographs © Albany Museum, Grahamstown.

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