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Gerdius Townes

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Cryptinae; Tribe: Cryptini)

Gerdius Townes 1970. Type species: Gerdius cinctus Townes 1970.

 

Gerdius alutaceus (Benoit, 1952)

 

Gerdius cinctus Townes, 1970

  Gerdius octonarius (Morley, 1916)

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Tanzania.

Also Oriental: Japan.

Biology

Host: unknown.

Reference

Townes, H.K. 1970. The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 2. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. No.12.(1969) 537pp.

Credits

Photographs and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

  Next genus: Gessia

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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