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Gambroides nimbipennis (Seyrig)

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

Vadonina nimbipennis Seyrig, 1952. Holotype: in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. Type locality

Distribution

Gambroides nimbipennis_map

Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda.

Biology

Hosts: Busseola fusca (Amphipyrinae), Chilo orichalcociliellus (Crambinae), Chilo partellus (Crambinae), Maliarpha (Peoriinae).

Reference

Seyrig, A. 1952. Les Ichneumonides de Madagascar. IV Ichneumonidae Cryptinae. Mémoires de l'Académie Malgache. Fascicule XIX. 213 pp.

Credits

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

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