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Enicospilus expeditus (Tosquinet)

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

Ophion expeditus Tosquinet 1896. Holotype: in Zoologisches Museum, Berlin. Type locality:

Distribution

Enicospilus expeditus_map

Togo, Yemen, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Madagascar

Biology

 Hosts: Anomis leona (Ophiderinae), Syllepta derogata (Pyraustinae)

Reference

 Tosquinet, J. 1896. Contributions à la faune entomologique de l'Afrique. Ichneumonides. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 5:1-430.

Credits

 Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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