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Afrocampsinae

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

Afrocampsinae van Achterberg & Austin, 1992.

Classification
  Tribe Afrocampsini van Achterberg & Austin, 1992

Afrocampsis van Achterberg & Quicke,1990 (Afrotropical)
  Tribe Urosigalphini van Achterberg, 2002
 

Canalicephalus Gibson,1977 (Indo-Australasian) c. 15 species
 

Urosigalphus Ashmead, 1889 (Nearctic, Neotropical, Palaearctic) c. 100 species

Biology

Endoparasitoids of beetle larvae (Chrysomelidae and Curculionidae).

Distribution

Cameroon, Central African Republic.

Indo-Australian: Canalicephalus

Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental: Urosigalphus.

References

Belokobylskij, S.A., Achterberg, C.V. & Manukyan, A.R. 2025. New fossil genus and species from the subfamily Sigalphinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Eocene Baltic amber with remarks on the genus Acampsohelcon Tobias, 1987. Zootaxa, 5722 (1), 124–134. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5722.1.6.

Tobias, V.I. 1987. New taxa of Braconidae from Baltic amber (Hymenoptera). Entomologicheskoye Obozreniye. 66(4): 845-859. [Entomological Review. 67(4):18-32].

Yu D.S., van Achterberg, K., Horstmann, K. 2011. World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Available from Vancouver, Canada: Taxapad. www.taxapad.com

Credits

Photographs © Sergey A. Belokobylskij (ZISP). Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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