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Exetastes Gravenhorst

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

Exetastes Gravenhorst, 1829. Type species: Ichneumon fornicator Fabricius, 1781.

Exestastes_annulator_HOLOTYPE

Exetastes annulator Morley, 1916

Exetastes_discretus_HOLOTYPE

Exetastes discretus Morley, 1917

Exetastes_madecassus_HOLOTYPE Exetastes madecassus Seyrig, 1934

Exetastes_personatus_HOLOTYPE

Exetastes peronatus Cameron, 1906

 

Exetastes rubrinotum Morley, 1915

Exetastes_violaceipennis_HOLOTYPE

Exetastes violaceipennis Cameron, 1906

Distribution

Ethiopia, Madagascar, South Africa.

Also Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental, and Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Endoparasitoids of mostly moth, but also beetle and wasp larvae.

References

Cameron, P. 1906. Descriptions of new species of parasitic Hymenoptera chiefly in the collection of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum. 5:17-186.

Fabricius, J.C. 1781. Species insectorum. Tom. I. Hamburgii et Kilonii. 552 pp.  

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

Morley, C. 1915. A revision of the Ichneumonidae based on the collection in the British Museum (Natural History) with descriptions of new genera and species Part IV. Tribes Joppides, Banchides and Alomyides. British Museum, London. 167pp.

Morley, C. 1916. On some South African Ichneumonidae in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum 15: 353-400.

Morley, C. 1917. On some South African Ichneumonidae in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum 17: 191-229.

Seyrig, A. 1934. Les Ichneumonides de Madagascar. II Ichneumonidae Tryphoninae et Supplement aux I. Pimplinae. Mémoires de l'Académie Malgache 19: 1-111.

Credits

Photographs and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or by Aisha Mayekiso © Iziko Museums of South Africa.

 

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Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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