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

Afrocampsis austroafricanus Belokobylskij, 2025. Holotype in St Petersburg, Russia (ZISP). Type Locality: S. Africa: Kwazulu-Natal, Ramsgate Butterfly Sanct.[uary], 30°53′S, 30°20′E, MT, 1.11–2.12.2004, [M.] Mostovski [leg.].

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

References

Belokobylskij, S.A., Achterberg, C.V. & Manukyan, A.R. 2025. New fossil genus and species from the subfamily Sigalphinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Eocene Baltic amber with remarks on the genus Acampsohelcon Tobias, 1987. Zootaxa, 5722 (1), 124–134. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5722.1.6.

Belokobylskij SA. 2025. Two new species for the rare Afrotropical genera Afrocampsis van Achterberg & Quicke and Malasigalphus van Achterberg & Austin (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Zootaxa 5689: 570-580.

van Achterberg, C. & Quicke, D.L.J. 1990. Afrocampsis, a new genus belonging to the Sigalphinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the Afrotropical region. Zoologische Mededelingen 64(11): 155-160.

Credits

Photographs © Sergey A. Belokobylskij (ZISP).

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

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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