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Thoracoplites bifurcatus Fischer

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

Thoracoplites bifurcatus Fischer, 1961
Kenya, Nyambene Hills, at about 2150m
Thoracolites_bifurcatus_Kenya_by_Bob_Copeland
Thoracolites bifurcatus Fischer 1961 by Stephane Hanot

Biology

 Unknown.

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda.

References

Fischer, M. 1961. Eine neues Opiinen-Genus aus Afrika (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 53: 439-441.

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

Credits

 Photograph of Congo specimen © Stephane Hanot (MRAC); photograph of Kenyan specimen © Bob Copeland (ICIPE).

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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