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Mansa goliath Benoit

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Cryptinae; Tribe: Aptesini; Genus: Mansa)

Mansa goliath Benoit, 1954. Holotype in Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (RMCA). Type locality:
 

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), taken with a hand-held Nikon FE2, 35 mm slide film and 105 mm macro lens in 2003.

Distribution

Democratic Republic Republic of Congo.

Biology

 Host: unknown.

Reference

 Benoit, P.L.G. 1954. Le genre Mansa Tosq. au Congo belge (Ichneum., Crypt.). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 49:167-168.

Credits

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