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Afrotropical Ichneumonoidea

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera)

 

Highlight: Khoikhoiinae an endemic South African braconid subfamily

Braconidae

Ichneumonidae

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Koinobiont or idiobiont endoparasitoids or ectoparasitoids of insects (Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Rhaphidioptera, Trichoptera, Orthoptera, Psocoptera, Diptera, Isoptera, Embioptera, Neuroptera) or Chelcerata (Araneae and Pseudoscorpionida).

Reference

Sharkey, M.J. 1993. Family Braconidae (pp. 362-395). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Wahl, D.B. 1993. Family ichneumonidae (pp. 395-448). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

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