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Platyxanion van Achterberg

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Braconidae; Subfamily: Amicrocentrinae)

Amicrocentrum (Platyxanion) van Achterberg, 1979. Type species: Amicrocentrum seyrigi Granger, 1949

  Platyxanion seyrigi (Granger, 1949)

Distribution

Madagascar.

Biology

Parasitoids of  Lepidoptera larvae.

References

Granger, C. 1949. Braconides de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar (A)2:1-428.

van Achterberg, C. 1979. A revision of the Amicrocentrinae, a new subfamily (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with the description of the final larval instar Amicrocentrum curvinervis by J.R.T. Short. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 122: 1-28.

Credits

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


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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