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Theronia lurida Tosquinet

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

Theronia lurida Tosquinet 1896. Holotype in Museo Civico do Storia Naturele, Genoa. Type locality: Janpidi, Ethiopia.

 

Distribution

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Guinea, Sierre Leone, Togo, Ethiopia, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Madagascar, South Africa

Biology

 Hosts: Argyrostagma niobe (Lymantriidae), Gonometa postica (Lasiocampidae).

Reference

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

Credits

 Photographs of Type © Simon van Noort & Museo Civico do Storia Naturele, Genoa.

Photograph of living specimen © Vida van der Walt (Pretoria).
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