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© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa),
taken with a hand-held Nikon FE2, 35 mm slide film
and 105 mm macro lens in 2003. |
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Distribution
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Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic
of Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra
Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe. |
Biology
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Reared from Alcides brevirostris
(Chevrolat) and A. erythropterus (Chevrolat) (Coleoptera:
Curculionidae) on Dolichos sp. (Fabaceae); reared from Alcides
sp. on Abelmoschus esculentus (Malvaceae) (okra); reared on
unidentified host on Gossypium sp. (Malvaceae) (cotton). |
References
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Benoit, P.L.G. 1952a. Révision des espèces continentales du genre Phorotrophus
Saussure (Ichneum. - Pimplinae). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique
Africaines 45: 330-352.
Benoit, P.L.G. 1952b. Notes ichneumologiques africaines (II). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 46:
51–56.
Maquart, P.O., Rousse, P. & van Noort, S. 2014.
Revision
of the Afrotropical genus Phorotrophus Saussure,
1892 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Acaenitinae), with description of
eight new species. African
Natural History 10:
57-117.
Townes, H & Townes,
M. 1973. A catalogue and reclassification
of the Ethiopian Ichneumonidae. Memoirs of the American
Entomological Institute 19: 1–416.
Wilkinson, D.S. 1930. New species and host records of Ichneumonidae and Braconidae. Bulletin of Entomological Research 21:
147-158.
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Credits
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Photographs by Pascal Rousse or Simon van Noort
© Iziko Museums of South Africa.
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genus:
Agrypon (Anomaloninae)
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