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Pimpla rugosa (Benoit)

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

Juniour synonym of Pimpla albipalpis Cameron 1905.

Itoplectis rugosus Benoit 1956. Holotype: in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: South Africa

Distribution

Itoplectis rugosus_map

South Africa

Biology

 Host: Cydia ponomella (Torticidae).

Reference

 Benoit, P.L.G. 1956. Ichneumonidae nouveaux ou interessants de l'Afrique du Sud. Annals of the South African Museum 43: 123-135.

Cameron, P. 1905. On the Hymenoptera of the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa (Second paper).  Records of the Albany Museum  1:185-244.

Credits

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

Photographs © Aisha Mayekiso (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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