Distribution
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Benin,
Central African Republic,
Democratic Republic of Congo,
Madagascar,
Seychelles,
South Africa, Uganda. |
Biology
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Hosts: Araneidae,
Dictynidae, Metidae, Theridiidae, Tortricidae, Yponomeutidae. |
Diagnosis
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Zatypota is characterized by
metasomal tergites II-IV with sharp oblique grooves delimiting a large
median diamond-shaped impression on each. |
References
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Benoit, P.L.G. 1953. Sur des Polysphinctini du Congo belge (Ichneum.
- Pimpl.). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 47:
137-141.
Benoit,
P.L.G. 1959. Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae (Banchinae, Bassinae, Pimplinae et
Tryphoninae). South African Animal Life 6: 441-482.
Broad GR. 2021. Taxonomic changes
in Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), and notes on certain type specimens. Zootaxa
4941: 511–541.
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4941.4.3
Förster,
A. 1869. Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen.
Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und
Westfalens 25(1868):135-221.
Müller, O.F. 1776. Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu
animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characteres, nomina et synomyma
imprimis popularium. Hafniae. 282 pp. (Ichneumon on pp. 151-160)
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
Agničle
Touret-Alby
© MNHN (specimens database
http://coldb.mnhn.fr), or
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or
©
Museum of Zoology, Lund (MZLU). Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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Epirhyssa (Rhyssinae) |
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