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Charops spinitarsis Cameron 

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

Charops spinitarsis Cameron, 1905. Holotype in Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type locality: Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Holotype in NHMUK, London.

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Charops_spinitarsis

Charops_spinitarsis

Charops_spinitarsis

Charops_spinitarsis

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

Female in SANC, Pretoria

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

Three specimens (a female and two males) and their cocoons, all with same data labels in SANC, Pretoria.

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

Photograph © Hermann Staude

Photograph © Hermann Staude

Photograph © Sharon Louw (Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife)

Photograph © Sharon Louw (Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife)

Photograph © Sharon Louw (Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife)

Photograph © Sharon Louw (Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife)

Photograph © Sharon Louw (Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife)

Photograph © Reinier Terblanche

Charops spinitarsis female attacking early instar caterpillars of Zerenopsis lepida feeding on Stangeria eriopus in Entumeni Nature Reserve (Kwazulu-Natal). Photographs © Reinier Terblanche, or Hermann Staude, or Sharon Louw.

Distribution

Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania.

Biology

Lepidoptera host species: Aloa moloneyi (Druce) (Arctiidae) (Risbec, 1960); Zerenopsis lepida (Walker, 1854) (Geometridae: Ennominae: Diptychini) (Armstrong et al 2020).

References

Armstrong AJ, Louw SL, Staude HS, Terblanche RF, Edge DA, van Noort S. 2020. Observations on parasitoid interaction with Zerenopsis lepida (Walker, 1854) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae: Diptychini) at Entumeni Nature Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Metamorphosis 31: 49–52.

Cameron, P. 1905. On some new genera and species of Hymenoptera from Cape Colony and Transvaal. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 15: 195-257.

Risbec, J. 1960. Les parasites des insectes d'importance en Afrique tropicale et à Madagascar. Agronomie Tropicale 15: 624–656.

Yu, D.S., van Achterberg, K. & Horstmann, K. 2012. World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxonomy, Biology, Morphology and Distribution. CD/DVD. Taxapad, Vancouver, Canada.

Credits

Photographs of pinned specimens and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Photographs of living specimens © Hermann Staude, or © Sharon Louw ((Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife)
 

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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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