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Enicospilus natalensis (Kriechbaumer)

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

Ophion natalensis Kriechbaumer, 1894. Holotype: in Ditsong (Transvaal Museum), Pretoria (TMSA). Type locality: Durban, South Africa.
Holotype in Ditsong (TMSA), Pretoria.  
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Non type in Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm.

Distribution

Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, South Africa.

Biology

 Host: unknown.

Reference

 Kriechbaumer, J. 1894. Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae a medico nautico Dr. Joh. Brauns in itinere secundo ad oras Africae lecta. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 39:297-318.

Credits

HOLOTYPE Ophion natalensis Photographs Simon van Noort (Iziko) © Transvaal Museum, Pretoria.

Non type photographs by Tapani Hopkins and Emil Osterman CC BY-NC 4.0 Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm.

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

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