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Cryptopimpla hoerikwagga Reynolds & van Noort

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

Cryptopimpla hoerikwagga Reynolds & van Noort, 2023. Holotype: in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: South Africa, Western Cape, Constantiaberge, 640m, 34°02.5'S, 18°23.5'E, above road to mast overlooking Hout Bay, 23 Feb – 2 March 1994, S. van Noort, Mesic Mountain Fynbos, Malaise trap, SAM-HYM-P00591 (SAMC).

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

 Host: unknown.

References

Reynolds T, van Noort S. 2023. Two new species of the genus Cryptopimpla Taschenberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae) with an updated key to African species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96: 667-696. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.96.104038

Credits

Photographs by Terry Reynolds © Iziko Museums of South Africa.

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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