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Pimpla crocata Tosquinet

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

Pimpla cocrata Tosquinet 1896. Holotype: in Zoologisches Museum, Berlin. Type locality:

 

 

 

 

Distribution

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Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa.

Biology

 Hosts: Argyrostagma niobe (Lymantriidae), Euproctis terminalis (Lymantriidae), Trichoplusia orichalcea (Noctuidae).

Reference

 Tosquinet, J. 1896. Contributions à la faune entomologique de l'Afrique. Ichneumonides. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 5: 1-430.

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