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Foenatopus albomaculatus Cameron

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Stephanoidea; Family: Stephanidae; Subfamily: Stephaninae; Genus: Foenatopus)

Foenatopus albomaculatus Cameron, 1906. Holotype: in Iziko South African Museum (SAMC). Type locality: Sebakwe (Zimbabwe).
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Distribution

 Botswana, Namibia,South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe.
Biology Host: unknown.

References

Cameron, P. 1906. Descriptions of new species of parasitic Hymenoptera, chiefly in the  collection of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum 5: 17-225.

Credits

Photograph of living specimen © Duncan MacFadyen (Pretoria); photographs of type specimen © Iziko Museums.
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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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