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Metopius butor (Benoit)

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

Ethimetopius butor Benoit, 1961. Holotype: in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN) (MNHN). Type locality: Antsirabé (Madagascar).

Distribution

Metopius butor_map

Madagascar.

Biology

 Host: unknown.

Reference

 Benoit, P.L.G. 1961. Nouveaux Metopiinae de Madagascar (Hym. Ichneumonidae). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 63: 299-308.

Credits

 Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). Images taken with a Nikon DE2 SLR camera and Nikon 105mm macro lens using 35 mm slide film in 2003.
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Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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