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Euceros Gravenhorst

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

Euceros Gravenhorst 1829. Type species: Euceros crassicornis Gravenhorst 1829.

Euceros_madecassus_PARATYPE

Euceros madecassus Seyrig, 1934

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Endoparasitoids of Hymenoptera (Argidae, Tenthredinidae, Diprionidae, Ichneumonidae) and Lepidoptera (Arctiidae, Geometridae, Lasiocampidae, Lymantriidae, Lycaenidae, Noctuidae, Notodontidae)

Reference

Gravenhorst, J.L.C. 1829. Ichneumonologia Europaea. Pars III. Vratislaviae. 1097 pp.

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