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Clistopyga_africana_HOLOTYPE

Clistopyga Gravenhorst

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

Clistopyga Gravenhorst, 1829. Type species: Ichneumon incitator Fabricius 1793.

Afroanomalia Varga, 2018. Type species: Afroanomalia pseudoclistopyga Varga, 2018. Synonymised by Bordera et al. 2025.

Clistopyga_africana_HOLOTYPE

Clistopyga africana Benoit, 1956

 

 

Clistopyga incitator (Fabricius, 1793)
Clistopyga pseudoclistopyga (Varga, 2018)

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Hosts: Agelenidae, Anobiidae, Bostrichidae, Buprestidae, Cerambycidae, Clubionidae, Cynipidae, Lasiocampidae, Oedemaridae, Psychidae,  Tortricidae, Yponomeutidae.

References

Bordera, S., Palacio, E. & Herrera-Flórez, A.F. 2025. The Neotropical species of Clistopyga (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae). Part VI: the C. calixtoi species group, with the description of twenty-four new species. Zootaxa, 5662 (1), 1–115. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5662.1.1

Benoit, P.L.G. 1956. Ichneumonidae nouveaux ou interessants de l'Afrique du Sud. Annals of the South African Museum. 43:123-135.

Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Tom. II. Hafniae. 519 pp.

Gravenhorst, J.L.C. 1829. Ichneumonologia Europaea. Pars III. Vratislaviae. 1097 pp.

Credits

Photographs by Aisha Mayekiso © (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or by Oleksandr Varga (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine).

 

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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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