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Eurycryptus_spilocephalus

Eurycryptus spilocephalus (Cameron)

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

Alriada spilocephala Cameron, 1911. Holotype: in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type locality: Transvaal, South Africa.

Aglaocryptus glabratus Morley, 1917. Holotype in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: South Africa. 

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Female Holotype (NHMUK). 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

South Africa.

Biology

 Host: unknown.

Reference

Cameron, P. 1911. On the parasitic Hymenoptera collected by Mr. A.J.T. Janse, Transvaal. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 2: 173-217.

Credits

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

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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