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Pimpla madecassa (Saussure)

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

Coccygomimus madecassa Saussure 1892. Holotype: in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Type locality:

 

 

 

 

Distribution

Pimpla madecassa_map

Madagascar

Biology

Hosts: Deborrea malgassa (Psychidae), Hypsoides bipars (Thaumetopoeidae).

Reference

Saussure, H. de. 1892. Hymenopteres. In: Grandidier A. "Histoire physique naturelle et politique de Madagascar. 20." Paris. 590 pp.

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