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Pristomerus Curtis

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

Pristomerus Curtis 1836. Type species: Ichneumon vulnerata Panzer 1799.

Pristomerus_albescens_HOLOTYPE

Pristomerus albescens (Morley, 1917)

 

Pristomerus africator Aubert & Shaumar, 1978

 

Pristomerus arabicus Horstmann, 1990

Pristomerus_bullis

Pristomerus bullis Fitton,1994

 

Pristomerus caris Fitton, 1994

 

Pristomerus cunctator Tosquinet, 1896

 

Pristomerus luteolus Tosquinet, 1896

 

Pristomerus pallidus (Kriechbaumer, 1884)

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Hosts: Chilo partellus (Pyralidae), Pectinophora gossypiella (Gelechiidae)

Reference

Curtis, J. 1836. British Entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland. 13:588,624.  

 

Panzer, G.W.F. 1799. Faunae Insectorum Germanicae. Heft 70-72.

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