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

Rhytimorpha coccinea Szépligeti, 1901. Holotype: in Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (HNHM). Type Locality: Vivi, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Distribution

Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Malawi, Namibia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen. Also in Palaearctic region: Egypt, Israel.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Quicke DL J, Koch F, Broad GR, Bennett AMR, van Noort S, Hebert PDN, Butcher BA. 2018. A new species of Rhytimorpha Szépligeti (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Braconinae) from Israel. Zoology in the Middle East doi:10.1080/09397140.2018.1470301. 

https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2018.1470301

Szépligeti G. 1901. Tropischen Cenocoeliden und Braconiden aus der Sammlung des Ungarischen National-Museums. Termeszetrajzi Fuzetek 24: 353–402.

Szépligeti G. 1906. Braconiden aus der Sammlung des ungarischen National-Museums, 1. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 4: 547–618.

Credits

Photographs of type specimen © Zoltán Soltész (HNHM).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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