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Venturia jordanae Fitton 

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

Venturia jordanae Fitton, 1994. Holotype: in Natural History Museum, London. Type locality

Distribution

Ivory Coast, Kenya, Sierra Leone.

Biology

Koinobiont endoparasitoid of the African white rice borer, Maliarpha separatella Ragonot 1888 (Pyralidae, Lepidoptera).

Reference

Polaszek, A., Fitton, M.G., Bianchi, G. and Huddleston, T. 1994. The parasitoids of the African white rice borer, Maliarpha separatella Ragonot (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 84: 65-90.

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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