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Sinophorus Förster

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

Sinophorus Förster 1869. Type species: Limneria canarsiae Ashmead 1898.
  Sinophorus xanthostomus (Gravenhorst, 1829)

Distribution

 Worldwide

Biology

 Hosts: Koinobiont endoparasitoid of butterfly & moth (Lepidoptera) & wasp (Symphyta, Hymenoptera) larva.

Reference

Ashmead, W.H. 1898. Descriptions of five new Hymenopterous parasites on Canarsia hammondi (Riley). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 4: 124-131.

 

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

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