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Charops_brevipennis_HOLOTYPE

Charops brevipennis (Cameron)

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

Trichomma brevipenne Cameron, 1906. Holotype: in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: South Africa.

Trichomma cariniscutum Cameron, 1906.  Holotype: in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: South Africa.

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

 Host: Cydia Pomonella (Olethreutinae).

Reference

Cameron, P. 1906. Descriptions of new species of parasitic Hymenoptera chiefly in the collection of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum 5: 17-186.

Credits

Photographs by Aisha Mayekiso © Iziko Museums of South Africa.

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
  Next genus: Chriodes

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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