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Ctenochares bicolorus (Linnaeus)

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

Ichneumon bicolorus Linnaeus 1767. Holotype: in Linnaean Society, London. Type locality:

Distribution

Ctenochares bicolorus_map

Afrotropical: Guinea, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Tanzania, Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Australian: Australia, Palearctic: Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia

Biology

 Hosts: Chrysodeixis chalcites (Noctuidea), Chrysodeixis eriosoma (Noctuidae)

Reference

 Linnaeus, C. von. 1767. Systema naturae. Tom. I. Pars II. 12th Edition. Laurnetii Salvii, Holmiae. 1(2):533-1328. (Ichneumon on pp. 930-941)

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