Dicamptus crassellus (Morley)

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

Allocamptus crassellus Morley, 1917. Holotype: in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: Mfongosi, Zululand, South Africa.

Holotype SAM-HYM-P001333 (SAMC) Imaged 2005 with Entovision




Holotype SAM-HYM-P001333 (SAMC) Imaged 2025 with Leica LAS 4.9

Distribution	Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa.
Biology	Host: unknown.
References	Gauld, I.D. & Mitchell, P.A. 1978. The taxonomy, distribution and host preferences of African parasitic wasps of the subfamily Ophioninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Slough, England, 287 pp. Morley, C. 1917. On some South African Ichneumonidae in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum 17: 191-229.
Credits	HOLOTYPE Dicamptus crassellus Photographs by Aisha Mayekiso (2005) or Simon van Noort (2025) © Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town.
	Next genus: Dictyonotus Next species: Dicamptus kelnerae

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>).

Dicamptus crassellus (Morley)

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