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Afrotrogus Heinrich

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

Afrotrogus Heinrich, 1938. Type species. Camarota madagascariensis Szépligeti, 1903.

Afrotrogus madagascariensis (Szépligeti, 1903)

Afrotrogus nigripedalis (Morley, 1919)
Afrotrogus rufipedalis (Morley, 1919)

Distribution

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Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Heinrich, G.H. 1938. Les Ichneumonides de Madagascar. III Ichneumonidae Ichneumoninae. Mémoires de l'Académie Malgache 25: 1-139.  

Morley, C. 1919. On some equatorial and other species and genera of African Ichneumoninae contained in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1919: 117-171.

Szépligeti, G. 1903. Espčces nouvelles d'Ichneumonides et de Braconides du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris 9: 336-338.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). Images taken with a Nikon DE2 SLR camera and Nikon 105mm macro lens using 35 mm slide film in 2003.
 

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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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