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Xanthophenax Saussure

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

Xanthophenax Saussure 1892. Type species: Xanthophenax fraudator Viereck 1914.

  Xanthophenax aberrator Seyrig,1932

Xanthophenax alluaudi Seyrig,1932

  Xanthophenax annulicornis (Seyrig,1935)

Xanthophenax antennatus Benoit,1953

Xanthophenax antinorii (Gribodo,1879)

Xanthophenax apicalis Benoit,1953

  Xanthophenax bredoi Benoit,1953
 

Xanthophenax cancanensis Pisica,1984

Xanthophenax concolor concolor (Brullé,1846)

 

Xanthophenax concolor vitellina (Tosquinet,1896)

 

Xanthophenax depressor Seyrig,1932

 

Xanthophenax dissimulator Seyrig,1932

 

Xanthophenax diversipes (Tosquinet,1896)

 

Xanthophenax elongatulus (Morley,1914)

 

Xanthophenax fraudator Saussure,1892

 

Xanthophenax infumatus Benoit,1953

 

Xanthophenax jeanneli (Seyrig,1935)

 

Xanthophenax liberator Seyrig,1932

 

Xanthophenax maynei Benoit,1953

 

Xanthophenax microspilus (Cameron,1910)

Xanthophenax pacificator Seyrig,1932

 

Xanthophenax pectoralis (Brullé,1846)

 

Xanthophenax pimploides (Szépligeti,1908)

 

Xanthophenax productus (Tosquinet,1896)

 

Xanthophenax pseudoptera (Morley,1914)

 

Xanthophenax pulchripennis (Szépligeti,1908)

 

Xanthophenax pusillus (Benoit,1953)

 

Xanthophenax pygmaeus Benoit,1953

 

Xanthophenax reductor (Seyrig,1932)

 

Xanthophenax roborator (Benoit,1964)

 

Xanthophenax ruber Benoit,1953

 

Xanthophenax rubrithorax (Morley,1914)

 

Xanthophenax ruficollis (Cameron,1912)

Xanthophenax rufus (Cameron,1906)

  Xanthophenax shawi Cameron,1904)
  Xanthophenax terebratus (Morley,1917)

Xanthophenax tuberatus (Tosquinet,1896)

Xanthophenax umbraticulus (Morley,1914)

 

Xanthophenax verticalis (Morley,1914)

Xanthophenax violaceus (Kriechbaumer,1890)

 

Xanthophenax xanthopteros Benoit,1953

Distribution

Xanthophenax_map

Senegal, Guinea, Togo, Ethiopia, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania,  Mozambique, Madagascar, South Africa

Biology

Host: Hypsipyla scabruscelella (Pyralidae).

Reference

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

Viereck, H.L. 1914. Type species of the genera of Ichneumon flies. United States National Museum Bulletin No.83. 186pp.

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