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Chilocyrtus Townes

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

Chilocyrtus Townes, 1971. Type species: Chilocyrtus carinatus Townes, 1971.

 

Chilocyrtus hortorum (Seyrig, 1934) ( Madagascar).

Chilocyrtus propodealis Varga, 2024 (South Africa)

Distribution

Madagascar, South Africa.

Also Neotropical (Argentina, Brazil), Oriental (Philippines), Palaearctic (Japan).

Biology

Host: unknown.

Reference

Townes, H.K. 1971. The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 4. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. No.17. 372pp.

Varga, O. 2024. A new species of the genus Chilocyrtus (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Orthocentrinae) from South Africa. Zoodiversity, 58 (2), 163–166. https://doi.org/10.15407/zoo2024.02.163

Credits

Photographs © Olexsandra Varga (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology),

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

 

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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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