Ctenochares

Ctenochares Förster

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

Ctenochares Förster 1869. Type species: Ichneumon xanthomelas Perkins 1962.

Ctenochares amoenus (Saussure,1892)

Ctenochares bicolorus (Linnaeus,1767)

Ctenochares fulgens (Tosquinet,1896)

Ctenochares fulvidus (Tosquinet,1896)

Ctenochares luteus (Cameron,1906)

Ctenochares madagascariensis (Heinrich,1938)

Ctenochares microcephalus Morley,1919

Ctenochares rufithorax (Kriechbaumer,1894)

Ctenochares testaceus Szépligeti,1908

Ctenochares vigilator (Fabricius,1781)

Distribution

Afrotropical: Guinea, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Namibia, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Australian: Australia, Palearctic: Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Tunisia

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

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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