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Phorotrophus mameti Benoit

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

Phorotrophus mameti Benoit 1952. Holotype: in Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren. Type locality:

Distribution

 

 

Phorotrophus mameti_map

Democratic Republic of Congo

Biology

Hosts: Balanogastris kolae (Zygopinae), Paremydica kolae (Curculioninae)

Credits

 

HOLOTYPE Phorotrophus mameti Photographs Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of Cape Town) © Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren.

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Reference

Benoit, P.L.G. 1952. Révision des espèces continentales du genre Phorotrophus Saussure (Ichneum. - Pimplinae). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 45:330-352.

 

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