Chilocyrtus propodealis Varga

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

Chilocyrtus propodealis Varga, 2024. Holotype in Zoological Museum, Lund University, Sweden (MZLU). Type locality: SOUTH AFRICA, Cape Prov., Tsitsikamma N.P. 34°02' S, 23°53' E, Malaise trap, Now–Dec. 1995 (M. Söderlund), MZU00172936.

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Seyrig, A. 1934. Les Ichneumonides de Madagascar. II Ichneumonidae Tryphoninae et Supplement aux I. Pimplinae. Mémoires de l'Académie Malgache 19: 1-111.

Varga, O. 2024. A new species of the genus Chilocyrtus (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Orthocentrinae) from South Africa. Zoodiversity, 58 (2), 163–166. https://doi.org/10.15407/zoo2024.02.163

Credits

Photographs © Olexsandra Varga (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology)

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

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