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Meloboris Holmgren

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

Meloboris Holmgren 1859. Type species: Meloboris gracilis Holmgren 1859.

 

Meloboris collector (Thunberg, 1822)

Meloboris helminda (Holmgren, 1868)

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Host: Endoparasitoids of mostly butterfly and moth (Lepidoptera), but also beetle (Coleoptera), larvae.

Reference

Holmgren, A.E. 1859. Conspectus generum Ophionidum Sueciae. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. 15(1858):321-330.

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