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Encardia picta Tosquinet
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa
(animals); Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera;
Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae;
Subfamily: Anomaloninae; Genus: Encardia)
Encardia picta Tosquinet, 1896. Holotype in Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Brussels. Type locality: Lavitoukou,
Democratic Republic of
Congo.
Junior synonyms:
Herus sagus
Tosquinet, 1903;
Ctenotoma fuscipennis Cameron,
1906; Ctenotoma
nigriceps Cameron 1906;
Ctenotoma ruficeps Cameron, 1906; Ctenocaloides
rufus Fahringer, 1936; Ctenocaloides anareolatus Fahringer, 1936; Ctenocaloides
anthereae Fahringer, 1936; Encardia buneae Benoit, 1952; Encardia
burgeoni Benoit, 1952; Encardia leiura Benoit, 1964.
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Holotype in Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Brussels. |
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Distribution |
Cameroon, Central African Republic,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger,
South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.
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Biology
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Parasitoids of Emperor moth larvae
(Saturniidae).
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References
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Tosquinet,
J. 1896. Contributions à la faune entomologique de l'Afrique.
Ichneumonides. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 5:
1-430.
Tosquinet, J.
1903. Ichneumonides nouveaux. (Travail posthume). Mémoires de la
Société Entomologique de Belgique 10:1-403. |
Credits
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Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa),
or
© Hennie De Klerk.
Map
illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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Next genus:
Parania
Next species:
Encardia
rufantennata
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