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Joppa geniculata Cameron 

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

Joppa geniculata Cameron 1884. Holotype: in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK).Type locality: 

Microjoppa mesoxantha Kriechbaumer 1898. 

Junior synonym. (Synonymy by Townes & Townes 1966)

Distribution

Joppa geniculata_map

Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama

Biology

 Host: unknown.

Reference

 Cameron, P. 1884. A synopsis of the central American species of Joppa, with diagnoses of new species. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 21:104-106.

Credits

 PARATYPES Microjoppa mesoxantha in Transvaal Museum Photographs Simon van Noort (Iziko) © Transvaal Museum, Pretoria.

Map illustration © 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. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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