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Dicamptus townesi Delobel

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

Dicamptus townesi Delobel 1976. Holotype: in American Entomological Institute, Florida. Type locality:

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Distribution

Dicamptus townesi_map

Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Tanzania, Uganda.

Biology

 Host: unknown.

References

 Delobel, A. 1976. Les espèces Éthiopiennes du genre Dicamptus (Hym. Ichneumonidae, Ophioninae, Enicospilini). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 11: 457-479.

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.

Credits

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