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Paraphylax Förster

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

Paraphylax Förster 1869. Type species: Paraphylax fasciatipennis Perkins 1962.

 

Paraphylax annulatus (Cameron,1911)

Paraphylax_annulipes_HOLOTYPE

 Paraphylax annulipes (Cameron,1905)

 

Paraphylax_caffer_HOLOTYPE Paraphylax caffer (Turner,1927)
 

Paraphylax basilewskyi (Benoit,1955)

 

Paraphylax carbonatorius (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax clarificator (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax cubiceps (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax divergens (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax elongatorius (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax ferruginosus (Holmgren,1868)

 

Paraphylax fixatorius (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax flavostigmus (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax globatorius (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax granulatorius (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax ivondricus (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax mercator (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax micans (Tosquinet,1896)

 

Paraphylax mimator (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax monotypus (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax nimbatorius (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax nimbipennis (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax nitidatorius (Seyrig,1952)

Paraphylax_nitidisentis_HOLOTYPE

Paraphylax nitidisentis (Cameron,1911)

 

 

Paraphylax postulator (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax pusillus (Szépligeti,1908)

 

Paraphylax ruficornis (Cameron,1906)

 

Paraphylax ridens (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax sculptus (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax seductor (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax sulcator (Seyrig,1952)

 

Paraphylax tosquinetii (Dalla Torre,1902)

 

Paraphylax transversatorius (Seyrig,1952)

  Paraphylax truncatorius (Seyrig,1952)

Distribution

Paraphylax_map

Afrotropical: Burundi, Tanzania, South Africa, Madagascar, Indo-Australian: Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Truk Islands, Samoa, Mariana Island

Biology

A combination of various small cocoons and cocoons of  ichneumonids and spiders. 

Reference

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

Perkins, J.F. 1962. On the type species of Förster's genera (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 11:385-483.

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