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Compsophorus flavobalteatus (Cameron)

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

Oxyjoppa Flavobalteata Cameron, 1906. Holotype: in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type locality: Estcourt, South Africa.

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. 1906. Descriptions of new species of parasitic Hymenoptera chiefly in the collection of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum 5: 17-186.

Credits

 Photographs and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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