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Netelia rufescens (Tosquinet)

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

Paniscus rufescens Tosquinet 1896. Holotype: in Zoologisches Museum, Berlin. Type locality

Distribution

Netelia rufescens_map

Afrotropical: Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Palearctic: Libya, Morocco, Romania, Spain

Biology

Host: Trichoplusia orichalcea (Noctuidae)

Reference

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

Credits

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