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Hyposoter Förster

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

Hyposoter Förster 1869. Type species: Limnerium parorgyiae Viereck 1910.

 

Hyposoter albipes (Hedwig, 1957)

  Hyposoter croccatus (Seyrig, 1935)  

 

Hyposoter obliquus (Seyrig, 1935)

 

Hyposoter reunionis Benoit, 1957

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Koinobiont endoparasitoids of mostly Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), but also beetle and wasp larvae.

Reference

Förster, A. 1869. Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 25: 135-221.  

 

Viereck, H.L. 1910. Descriptions of new species of Ichneumon flies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 38: 379-384.

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