Distribution
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Madagascar, Reunion. |
Biology
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Host: unknown. Morphological studies
indicate that I. albipes uses echolocation when foraging for
hosts (Broad & Quicke 2000). |
Diagnosis
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The acute indentation in front of the toruli
is a characteristic of Itoplectis. The combination of its
relatively small size and the median white band on black hind tibia
distinguishes I. albipes from all Pimplinae reported in the
Indian Ocean subregion (Rousse & Villemant, 2012). |
Comments
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Benoit (1957) described the subspecies
evoluta
based on color variation in the Malagasy
population of this species. This variation is not regionally consistent
and hence subspecies evoluta is currently treated as a synonym of
the nominal species (Rousse & Villemant, 2012). |
References
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Broad, G. & Quicke, D.L.J. 2000. The adaptive
significance of host locality by vibrational sounding in parasitoid wasps.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 267, 2403–2409.
Rousse, P. & Villemant, C. 2012.
Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local
Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species.
Zootaxa 3278: 1–57.
Seyrig, A. 1932.
Les Ichneumonides de Madagascar. I Ichneumonidae Pimplinae. Mémoires de l'Académie Malgache.
Fascicule 11. 183pp.
Yu D.S., van Achterberg, K.,
Horstmann, K. 2011. World Ichneumonoidea 2011.
Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Available from
Vancouver, Canada: Taxapad.
www.taxapad.com
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Credits
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Photographs by
Agnièle
Touret-Alby
© MNHN (specimens database
http://coldb.mnhn.fr). |
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Neotheronia
Next
species: Itoplectis glabra |
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