(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Banchinae; Genus: Tetractenion)
Tetractenion acaule Seyrig, 1932. Lectotype: in Muséum national d'Historie naturelle, Paris (MNHN). Type locality: Rogez (Madagascar).
Lectotype (MNHN)
Photographs of Lectotype © RECOLNAT (ANR-11-INBS-0004) - Christophe Hervé - 2014. http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/ey/ey9333
Non-type (RMCA)
Photographs of non-type taken in 2003 with a hand held Nikon FE2 and 105 mm macro lens (© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
Madagascar.
Host: unknown.
Reynolds Berry T, van Noort S. 2020. Revision of the endemic Afrotropical genus Tetractenion (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) with an identification key to genera of Banchinae for the region. ZooKeys 1007: 49-84. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1007.55543
Seyrig, A. 1932. Les Ichneumonides de Madagascar. I Ichneumonidae Pimplinae. Mémoires de l'Académie Malgache. Fascicule 11. 183pp.
Photographs of non-type and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
Next genus: Tossinola
Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)
Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).
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