Dicaelotus tablemountainensis Rousse & van Noort

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

Dicaelotus tablemountainensis Rousse & van Noort, 2013. Holotype: in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: Constantiaberge, above Donkerboskloof, 460m, 34°02′S 18°23.5′E (South Africa).

Distribution	South Africa (Western Cape).
Biology	Host: unknown.
Etymology	Named in honour of the Table Mountain National Park, to which the type locality belongs. In 1503, a Portuguese explorer, Antonio de Saldanha, climbed and named the mountain Taboa do Cabo (= Table of the Cape). Subsequently the mountain became known as Tafelberg (= Table Mountain) to the first European Dutch settlers of the Cape who arrived in 1652.
Reference	Rousse P, van Noort S & Diller E. 2013. Revision of the Afrotropical Phaeogenini (Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), with description of a new genus and twelve new species. Zookeys 354: 1-85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.354.5968.
Credits	Photographs by Pascal Rousse © Iziko Museums of South Africa.
	Next genus: Diphyrus Next species: Diphyus celsus

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>).

Dicaelotus tablemountainensis Rousse & van Noort

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