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Allophrys Förster

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

Allophrys Förster, 1869. Type species: Thersilochus oculatus Ashmead, 1895.

ClassificationIdentification keys

Allophrys astafurovae Khalaim, 2013 (South Africa)

Allophrys broadi Khalaim, 2013 (South Africa)

 

Allophrys budongoana Khalaim, 2013 (Uganda)

Allophrys calculator Khalaim, 2013 (South Africa)

 

Allophrys dictator Khalaim, 2013 (South Africa)

 

Allophrys excavator Khalaim, 2013 (South Africa)

Allophrys granulata Khalaim, 2013 (South Africa)

 

Allophrys scitula Khalaim, 2013 (South Africa)

 

Allophrys tractor Khalaim, 2013 (South Africa)

Distribution

South Africa, Uganda.

Also Indo-Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical and Oriental regions.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Förster, A. 1869. Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 25(1868): 135-221.  

Horstmann, K. 1971. Revision der europäischen Tersilochinen 1 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Veröffentlichungen der Zoologischen Staatssammlung (München). 15:47-138. 

Khalaim, A.I. 2009. South African species of Aneuclis Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tersilochinae). African Invertebrates 50: 123-136.

Khalaim, A.I. 2010. To the study of Afrotropical species of the genus Aneuclis Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tersilochinae). Zoosytematica Rossica 19: 120–123.

Khalaim, A.I. 2013 Discovery of the South African fauna of Allophrys Förster (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tersilochinae). Zootaxa, 3701(3), 329–343.

Rousse, P. & Villemant, C. 2012. Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species. Zootaxa 3278: 1–57.

Credits

Photographs © Andrey Khalaim (Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

 

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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