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Meloboris collector (Thunberg)

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

Ichneumon collector Thunberg, 1822. Holotype in Zoologiska Institutionen, Uppsala. Type locality: ?

Distribution

South Africa (introduced from Palaearctic region).

Biology

 Parasitoid of noctuid, gelechiid and tortricid moths (Lepidoptera).

Reference

Thunberg, C.P. 1822. Ichneumonidea, Insecta Hymenoptera illustrata. Mémoires de l'Académie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint Petersbourg 8: 249-281.

Credits

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

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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