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Hemibystra persiba (Tosquinet)

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

Hoplismenus persibus Tosquinet, 1896. Holotype in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa. Type locality: Ragazzi, Ethiopia.

Female holotype Genoa

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). Taken with Entovision Leica multi-stacking system in 2007.
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Female holotype Genoa

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

Ethiopia.

Biology

 Host: unknown.

Reference

 Tosquinet, J. 1896. Contributions à la faune entomologique de l'Afrique. Ichneumonides. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 5: 1-430.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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