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Eurygenys Townes

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

Eurygenys Townes 1971. Type species: Eurygenys ricinorum Townes 1971.
Eurygenys bilbo Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig, 2011
Eurygenys gamour Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig, 2011
Eurygenys kerlioretensis Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig, 2011

Eurygenys_ligulatus

Eurygenys ligulatus (Morley, 1926)

Eurygenys ricinorum Townes, 1971

Distribution

Madagascar, South Africa.

Biology

Host: Trabala sp. (Lasiocampidae).

References

Rousse, P., Villemant, C. & Seyrig, A. 2011. Ichneumonid wasps from Madagascar. 5. Ichneumonidae Cremastinae. Zootaxa, 3118, 1-30.

Townes, H.K. 1971. The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 4. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. No.17. 372pp.

Credits

 Photographs by Agničle Touret-Alby © MNHN (specimens database http://coldb.mnhn.fr) or by Aisha Mayekiso © Iziko Museums of South Africa. Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
  Next genus: Noxocremastus

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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