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Genaemirum phagocossorum Rousse, Broad & van Noort

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

Genaemirum phagocossorum Rousse, Broad & van Noort, 2016. Holotype in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: Ndubazi plantation, near Machadodorp, South Africa.

Distribution

South Africa.

Coryphodema tristis larvae. Photograph © Brett Hurley.

Coryphodema tristis larval infestation in Eucalyptus nitens. Photograph © Brett Hurley.

 

Coryphodema tristis adult. Photograph © Simon van Noort.

Biology

 Reared from logs of Eucalyptus nitens (H. Deane & Maiden) Maiden (Myrtales: Myrtaceae) which were heavily infested with Coryphodema tristis (Drury) (Lepidoptera: Cossidae).

References

 Heinrich, G.H. 1967. Synopsis and reclassification of the Ichneumoninae Stenopneusticae of Africa south of Sahara (Hym.).Vol.I. Farmington State College Press. pp. 1-250.

Rousse P, Broad GR & van Noort S. 2016. Review of the genus Genaemirum Heinrich (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) with interactive identification keys to species. ZooKeys 636: 77-105. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.636.10216

Credits

 Photographs of wasp and adult moth by Simon van Noort or Pascal Rousse © Iziko Museums of South Africa. Photographs of caterpillars and Eucalyptus infestation © Brett Hurley (FABI).
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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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