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Diatora Förster

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

Diatora Förster 1869. Type species: Diatora prodeniae Ashmead 1904.

 

Diatora albiscapus (Seyrig,1952)

Distribution

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Afrotropical: Madagascar, Indo-Australian: China, Guam, India, Japan, Palau Is, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Truk Island

Biology

Hosts: Noctuidae, Pyralidae, Lymantriidae (Lepidoptera), Braconidae

Reference

Ashmead, W.H. 1904. Descriptions of new genera and species of Hymenoptera from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 28(1387):127-158.

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

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