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Netelia melanopus (Brullé)

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

Paniscus melanopus Brullé, 1846. Holotype: in Muséum national d'Historie naturelle, Paris (MNHN). Type locality: Maurice.

Netelia melanopus habitus dorsal Netelia melanopus habitus profile

Distribution

Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Rodriques Island, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Hosts: Mythimna loreyi, Sesamia calamistis, S. inferens (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Olethreutes schistaceanus (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) and Chilo sacchariphagus (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae).

References

Brullé, M.A. 1846. Tome Quatrième. Des Hyménoptères. Les Ichneumonides. In: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau A. "Histoire Naturelles des Insectes." Paris. 680 pp. pp. 56-324.

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.

Yu D.S., van Achterberg, K., Horstmann, K. 2011. World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Available from Vancouver, Canada: Taxapad. www.taxapad.com

Credits

Photographs by Agnièle Touret-Alby © MNHN (specimens database http://coldb.mnhn.fr).
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