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Macrocentrus collaris Spinola

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

Bracon collaris Spinola, 1808. Specimens in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC).

Classification
Female  
Male  

Biology

Reared from the cutworm (turnip moth) Agrotis segetum (Noctuidae) in Mpumalanga (South Africa).

Distribution

Ethiopia, South Africa. Also Neotropical, Oriental, Palaearctic.

References

van Achterberg, C. & Polaszek, A. 1996. The parasites of cereal stem borers (Lepidoptera: Cossidae, Crambidae, Noctuidae, Pyralidae) in Africa, belonging to the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea). Zoologische Verhandelingen. No.304. 123 pp.

Credits Photographs and 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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