Distribution
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 Afrotropical: Niger, Chad,
Senegal, Sierre Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Central African Repblic,
Ethiopia, Congo, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola,
Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa. Also Oriental region: India. |
Biology
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Hosts: Acanthocampa
belina (Saturniidae), Buneae caffraria (Saturniidae), Imbrasia
macrothyris (Saturniidae), Janomima westwoodi (Eupterotidae),
Lobobunaea paratyrrhene (Saturniidae), Usta terpsichore
(Saturniidae). |
References
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Cameron, P. 1906. Descriptions of new
species of parasitic Hymenoptera chiefly in the collection of the South
African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum
5: 17-186.
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.
Townes, H.K. 1971. The genera of
Ichneumonidae, Part 4. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 17:
1-372. |
Credits
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Photographs
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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Next genus:
Laticoleus |
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