(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Banchinae; Genus: Atropha)
Atropha 4-annulata Kriechbaumer, 1894. Holotype in Ditsong Musuem (=Transvaal Museum), Pretoria (TMSA). Type locality: Durban, Kwazulu-Natal.
South Africa.
Hosts: Characoma sp. (Sarrothripinae), Earias biplaga (Eariadinae).
Kriechbaumer, J. 1894. Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae a medico nautico Dr. Joh. Brauns in itinere secundo ad oras Africae lecta. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 39: 297-318.
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Next genus: Cryptopimpla Next species: Atropha sectator
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