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Bathythrix Förster

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

Bathythrix Förster 1869. Type species: Bathythrix meteori Howard 1897.

 

Bathythrix carinata (Seyrig,1952)

 

Bathythrix praestans (Seyrig,1952)

 

Bathythrix quadrata (Seyrig,1952)

 

Bathythrix speculator (Seyrig,1935)

 

Bathythrix triangulifera (Seyrig,1952)

Distribution

Afrotropical, Holarctic, Neotropical & Oriental regions

Biology

Hosts: Acer pseudoplatanus (Dicotyledoneae), Juniperus communis (Gymnospermae), Larix decidua (Gymnospermae), Malus sp. (Dictyledoneae), Oryza sativa (Monocotyledoneae), Pinus sylvestris (Gymnospermae), Rosa sp. (Dicotyledoneae), Symphoricarpos albus (Dicotyledoneae), Triticum aestivum (Monocotyledoneae), Typha sp. (Monocotyledoneae), Urtica dioica (Dicotyledoneae).

Reference

Förster, A. 1869. Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens. 25(1868):135-221.  

Howard, L.O. 1897. A study in insect parasitism: a consideration of the parasites of the white-marked tussock moth, with an account of their habits and interrelations, and with descriptions of new species. United States Department of Agriculture, Bulletin of Entomology. 5. 57 pp.

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