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Xorides unifasciatus (Morley)

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

Xylonomus unifasciatus Morley, 1916. Holotype: in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: Mfongosi, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.

Junior synonym of Xorides maculiceps (Cameron, 1906) (synonymy by Townes, 1973).

Holotype of Xylonomus unifasciatus Morley, 1916

Photographs by Aisha Mayekiso © Iziko Museums of South Africa.

Distribution

 

South Africa.

Biology

Host: unknown.

Reference

 

Cameron, P. 1906. Descriptions of new species of parasitic Hymenoptera chiefly in the collection of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum 5: 17-186.

Morley, C. 1916. On some South African Ichneumonidae in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum 15: 353-400.

Townes, H.K. & Townes, M. 1973. A catalogue and reclassification of the Ethiopian Ichneumonidae. Errata for 1944-1945 Nearctic catalogue, 1965 eastern Palearctc catalogue and 1966 Neotropic catalogue. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 19: 1-416.

Varga, O. 2019. Revision of the Afrotropical Xorides Latréille, 1809 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Xoridinae), with description of three new species. Zootaxa 4638: 57–80. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4638.1.2.

Yu, D.S. & Horstmann, K. 1997. A catalogue of world Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 58:  1-1558.

Credits

Photographs by Aisha Mayekiso © Iziko Museums of South Africa or photographs © Oleksandr Varga (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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