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Vipio Latreille

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

Vipio Latreille, 1804. Type species: Agathis longicauda (Boheman, 1853).

  Vipio andrieui Vuillet, 1912
  Vipio carnifex Kriechbaumer, 1894
  Vipio dorsimacula Brullé, 1846
  Vipio forticarinatus Cameron, 1910
  Vipio longicaudis Cameron, 1906
  Vipio longicollis Buysson, 1897
  Vipio maculiceps Cameron, 1906
  Vipio michaelseni Szépligeti, 1918
  Vipio natalensis Cameron, 1906
  Vipio nigripalpis Cameron, 1906
  Vipio nigronotatus Brullé, 1846
  Vipio ocreatus Kriechbaumer, 1894
  Vipio quinquemaculatus Cameron, 1906
  Vipio sexfoveatus Cameron, 1906
  Vipio signifer (Walker, 1871)
  Vipio spilocephalus Cameron, 1906
  Vipio stictonotus Cameron, 1906
  Vipio tinctipennis Cameron, 1906
Vipio species (South Africa)
  Vipio trimaculatus Cameron, 1906

Vipio_Kgalagadi_Jonathan_Ball

Kgalagadi near Union's End, 24 May 2012. Photograph © Jonathan Ball (Cape Town).

Vipio Jonathan Ball Cederberg 2013

Image taken in the Cedarberg (about 2 km SW of Welbedacht Caves) at 10H47 on the 23rd December 2013. Photograph © Jonathan Ball (Cape Town).

Distribution

Afrotropical.

Biology

Endoparasitoids (idiobiont) of concealed larvae of xylophagous and stem-boring Coleoptera and Lepidoptera and rarely of Diptera and Symphyta.

References

 

Credits

Photograph © Roger Mayes (Gauteng) or Jonathan Ball (Cape Town).

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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