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Centistes caloupile Rousse & Braet

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

Centistes caloupile Rousse & Braet, 2012. Holotype in Muséum National d’Hitoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN). Type locality: La Réunion, Ste Suzanne, Forêt Dugain, 860m

Classification
Centistes_caloupile_Holotype_MNHN Centistes_caloupile_dark_form_MNHN

Diagnosis

 Distinguished by the abruptly decurved and deeply impressed sternaulus (Rousse & Braet, 2012).

Biology

Unknown.

Distribution

Reunion

Reference

Rousse, P. & Braet, Y. 2012. Braconid wasps (Hymenoptera) of Reunion. 1. Euphorinae (including Meteorini): key to species and description of six new species. Zootaxa 3449: 26–46.

Credits

Phototographs by Agnièle Touret-Alby © MNHN. Visit the MNHN database http://coldb.mnhn.fr

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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