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Atropha_luteoclypeata_HOLOTYPE

Atropha luteoclypeata Benoit

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

Atropha luteoclypeata Benoit, 1955. Holotype in Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (RMCA). Type locality: Bambesa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Female Holotype (RMCA). Photographs © 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.

Distribution

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Benoit, P.L.G. 1955. Contributions a l'étude des Ichneumonidae africains (Hymenoptera). I. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Sciences Zoologiques 38: 1-55. 

Credits

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

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

 

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