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Enicospilus congoensis (Cameron)

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

Ophion congoensis Cameron 1912. Holotype in Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (RMCA). Type locality:

Distribution

Enicospilus congoensis_map

Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic,  Ethiopia, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya,  Tanzania, Angola, Madagascar, South Africa

Biology

 Hosts: Anomis leona (Noctuidae), Rhodogastria atrivena (Arctiidae)

Reference

Cameron, P. 1912. On the Hymenoptera from Belgian Congo in the Congo Museum, Tervueren. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 56:357-401.

Credits

 Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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