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Enicospilus_prolixus_PARATYPE

Enicospilus prolixus Gauld & Mitchell

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

Enicospilus prolixus Gauld & Mitchell 1978. Holotype in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type locality:

Forewing sclerite region. Line drawing from Gauld and Mitchell, 1978.

Distribution

Enicospilus prolixus_map

Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, South Africa

Biology

 Host: Anomis leona (Noctuidae)

Reference

 Gauld, I.D. and Mitchell, P.A. 1978. The taxonomy, Distribution and host preferences of African parasitic wasps of the subfamily Ophioninae. CAB:Slough. Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, London. 287pp.

Credits

 PARATYPE Enicospilus prolixus in Albany Museum, Grahamstown. Photographs Simon van Noort (Iziko) © Albany Museum, Grahamstown.

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. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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