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Anomalon nigricans (Cameron)

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

Stictophion nigricans Cameron, 1906. Type in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: Cape, South Africa. Junior synonym of Anomalon rufipes (Cameron, 1906).

 
Imaged in 2005 with Entovision imaging system by Aisha Mayekiso.
Imaged in 2023 with LAS 4.9 imaging system by Simon van Noort.

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Host: unknown.

Reference

Cameron, P. 1906. Descriptions of new species of parasitic Hymenoptera chiefly in the collection of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum. 5:17-186.

Credits

Photographs by Aisha Mayekiso © Iziko Museums of South Africa.

Photographs and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
 

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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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