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Heterischnus Wesmael

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

Heterischnus Wesmael 1859. Type species: Ichneumon pulex Müller 1776.

 

Heterischnus africanus (Heinrich,1936)

 

Heterischnus olsoufieffi (Heinrich,1936)

Distribution

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Afrotropical: Kenya, Madagascar, Holarctic: Algeria, Austria, Azerbaijin, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Canary Islands, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Madeira Islands, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, U.S.A., Ukraine, United Kingdom, Oriental: Japan

Biology

Host: unknown

Reference

Müller, O.F. 1776. Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characteres, nomina et synomyma imprimis popularium. Hafniae. 282 pp. (Ichneumon on pp. 151-160)

Wesmael, C. 1859. Remarques critiques sur diverses espèces d'Ichneumons de la collection de feu le Professeur J.L.C. Gravenhorst, d'un court appendice Ichneumonlogique. Mémoires Couronnes Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Bruxelles. 8:1-99.

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