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Adelotropis Waterston

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

Adelotropis Waterston 1922. Type species: Adelotropis farquharsoni Waterston 1922.

 

Adelotropis farquharsoni Waterston, 1922

Distribution

Adelotropis_map

Nigeria.

Biology

Host: Deudorix diyllus (Lyncaenidae).

Reference

Waterston, J. 1922. On a new Joppine (Ichneumonidae) genus and species bred from a Lycaenid larva in southern Nigeria. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1921:455-460.

Credits

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
  Next genus: Aethiamblys

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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