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Mesochorus Gravenhorst

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

Mesochorus Gravenhorst 1829. Type species: Mesochorus spelendidulus Viereck 1914.

 

Mesochorus basilewskyi Benoit,1955

 

Mesochorus decoratus Wilkinson,1927

 

Mesochorus discitergus (Say,1835)

 

Mesochorus herero Enderlein,1914

 

Mesochorus lobaticola Benoit,1955

 

Mesochorus melanothorax Wilkinson,1927

 

Mesochorus nkulius Benoit,1955

  Mesochorus_nox_HOLOTYPE

Mesochorus nox Morley,1926

 

Mesochorus ornatus Wilkinson,1927

 

Mesochorus probus Benoit,1955

 

Mesochorus sculpturatus Benoit,1955

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Host: Phryganidia california (Dioptidae)

Reference

Gravenhorst, J.L.C. 1829. Ichneumonologia Europaea. Pars II. Vratislaviae. 989 pp.  

 

Viereck, H.L. 1914. Type species of the genera of Ichneumon flies. United States National Museum Bulletin. No.83. 186pp. (453)

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