Phorotrophus mameti Benoit

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

Phorotrophus mameti Benoit, 1952. Holotype: in Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC). Type locality: Bikoro, Lac Tumba, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Phorotrophus basilewskyi Benoit, 1952 (synonymy by Maquart et al. 2014).

Phorotrophus limpidus Benoit, 1955 (synonymy by Maquart et al. 2014).

Phorotrophus nigromaculatus Benoit, 1952 (synonymy by Maquart et al. 2014).

Distribution

Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Uganda.

Biology

Reared from Balanogastris kolae (Desbrochers) (Zygopinae), Paremydica kolae (Hustache) (Curculioninae) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) on Cola cordifolia (Sterculiaceae).

References

Benoit, P.L.G. 1952. Révision des espèces continentales du genre Phorotrophus Saussure (Ichneum. - Pimplinae). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 45: 330-352.

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.

Credits

Photographs by Pascal Rousse © Iziko Museums of South Africa.

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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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