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Encardia sagus Tosquinet

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

Herus sagus Tosquinet 1903. Holotype: in Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Brussels. Type locality: Zukungu, democratic Republic of Congo.

Junior synonym of Encardia picta

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Distribution

 

Distribution_of_Encardia_picta

South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic and Niger

Biology

Parasitoids of Emperor moth larvae (Saturniidae)

References

 

Tosquinet, J. 1903. Ichneumonides nouveaux. (Travail posthume). Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 10:1-403.  

Credits

 

HOLOTYPE Herus sagus Photographs Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of Cape Town) © Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Brussels.

Web editing: Aisha Mayekiso

 

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