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Leptophatnus Cameron

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

Leptophatnus Cameron, 1906. Type species: Leptophatnus ruficeps Cameron 1906.

 

Leptophatnus alluaudi (Heinrich, 1936) (Kenya, Tanzania)

Leptophatnus angolator Heinrich, 1967 (Angola)

Leptophatnus cariniscrobes (Morley, 1917) (Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania)
 

Leptophatnus citriconiger Heinrich, 1967 (Tanzania)

Leptophatnus crococephalus (Tosquinet, 1896) (Angola, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Leptophatnus faustus (Tosquinet, 1896) (Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda)
 

Leptophatnus gabunensis Heinrich, 1967 (Gabon)

Leptophatnus glabrinotor (Morley, 1919) (Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania)

Leptophatnus lamelligena (Heinrich, 1967) (Equatorial Guinea)

Leptophatnus lucifer (Morley, 1917) (South Africa)
 

Leptophatnus madagascariensis (Heinrich, 1938) (Madagascar)

Leptophatnus melanisticus Heinrich, 1967 (Angola)

Leptophatnus minor Heinrich, 1967 (Tanzania)

Leptophatnus nigrocyaneus (Tosquinet, 1896) (Ethiopia)
 

Leptophatnus pseudominor Heinrich, 1967 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania)

Leptophatnus separatus (Heinrich, 1938) (Madagascar)

Leptophatnus simplex Heinrich, 1967 (Tanzania)

Leptophatnus ulugurus Heinrich, 1967 (Mozambique, Tanzania)

Leptophatnus xanthocephalus (Brullé, 1846) (South Africa)

Distribution

Angola, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

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.

Heinrich, G.H. 1968. Synopsis and reclassification of the Ichneumoninae Stenopneusticae of Afbrica south of Sahara (Hym.).Vol.IV. Farmington State College Press. pp.693-942.

Credits

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
  Next genus: Leptops

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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