Cenocoelius huggerti

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Cenocoelius huggerti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Hymenoptera Suborder: Apocrita Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea Family: Braconidae Subfamily: Cenocoeliinae Genus: Cenocoelius Species: C. huggerti
Binomial name
Cenocoelius huggerti Pitz & Sharkey, 2005

Cenocoelius huggerti is a species of hymenopteran insect belonging to the family Braconidae. It is presently only known from a single female collected from Bakau in The Gambia in 1978. It is the only known member of the subfamily Cenocoeliinae from the Afrotropical ecozone. This generally dark insect has a body length of 4.9 mm. The species is named after the collector of the only specimen, the late Lars Huggert.

[edit] References

• Kevin M. Pitz & Michael J. Sharkey (2005). "Cenocoelius huggerti, the first record of the subfamily Cenocoeliinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Africa". Journal of Hymenoptera Research 14(1): 92-95.