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Deuterotyptus lycaenarum HeinrichDeuterotyptus

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

Deuterotyptus lycaenarum Heinrich, 1967. Holotype: in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN). Type locality: Behara, Madagascar.

Female Holotype MNHN

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

Madagascar.

Biology

 Host: Deudorix (Virachola) dinochares Gr. Smith (Lycaenidae).

Reference

Heinrich, G.H. 1967. Synopsis and reclassification of the Ichneumoninae Stenopneusticae of Africa south of Sahara (Hym.).Vol.II. Farmington State College Press. pp. 251-480.

Credits

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

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