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Charops cantator (DeGeer) 

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

Ichneumon cantator DeGeer 1778. Holotype: desposition unknown Type locality: 

Distribution

Charops cantator_map

Palaeartic Region: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, Afrotropical: South Africa

Biology

 Host: Peucedanum oreoselinum (Dicotyledoneae)

Reference

 DeGeer, C. 1778. Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des insects. Tome Septieme. Stockholm. P. Hesselberg. 950 pp. (Ichneumon in 594-596)

Credits

 HOLOTYPE Charops cantator Photographs Simon van Noort © Iziko Museums of Cape Town.

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