Anomalon Panzer

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

Anomalon Panzer, 1804. Type species: Anomalon cruentatus Panzer, 1804.

Distribution

Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe. Also all other regions in the world.

Biology

Parasitoids of beetle (Coleoptera) and moth (Lepidoptera) larvae.

References

Cameron, P. 1904. On the Hymenoptera of the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa.  Record of the Albany Museum 1:161-176.

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.

Morley, C. 1926. On some South African Ichneumonidae in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum. 23:435-481.

Panzer, G.W.F. 1804. Faunae Insectorum Germanicae. Heft 92,94,95.

Seyrig, A. 1935. Mission scientifique de l'Omo. Tome III. Fascicule 18. Hymenoptera, II. Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae, Pimplinae, Tryphoninae et Ophioninae. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN) 4: 1-100.

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