Lycorina continentalis (Benoit)

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

Gonioglyphus continentalis Benoit, 1953. Holotype in Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (RMCA). Type locality: Haut-Uele, Paulis (DRC). Junior synonym of Lycorina fici Seyrig, 1932. Synonymy by Rousse & van Noort, 2013.

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Benoit, P.L.G. 1953. Notes Ichneumonologiques Africaines III. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 47: 145–152.

Rousse, P. & van Noort, S. 2013. Revision of the Afrotropical Lycorininae (Ichneumonidae; Hymenoptera) with description of a new species from South Africa. Zootaxa 3666 (2): 252–266. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3666.2.8

Rousse, P. & van Noort, S. 2014. Revision of the Afrotropical Lycorininae (Ichneumonidae; Hymenoptera) II. Three new species and additional distribution records. Zootaxa 3884 (3): 222–234. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3884.3.2

Credits

Photographs © Pascal Rousse (Iziko South African Museum).

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