Holotype in Iziko South
African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). |
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Female probing in an attempt to oviposite into a host (a moth pupa on
the underside of the leaf, but the adult moth had already emerged - see
photos below).
Pickle Pot Forest Patch, Impendle, South Africa.
Photographs
© Alan Manson
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80214500
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Empty case of moth pupa on the underside of the leaf - target of the
failed oviposition attempt by the female above. Photographs
© Alan Manson
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80229622
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Distribution
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South Africa. |
Biology
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Host: unknown. |
Reference
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Benoit,
P.L.G. 1956.
Ichneumonidae nouveaux ou interessants de l'Afrique du Sud. Annals of the South African Museum 43: 123-135.
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Credits
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Photographs © Aisha Mayekiso (Iziko Museums of South
Africa), or
photographs
© Alan Manson.
Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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Next genus:
Pimplaetus Next
species: Pimpla rubripes |
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