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Hypsicera Latreille

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

Hypsicera Latreille, 1829. Type species: Ichneumon fermoralis Geoffroy, 1785.

 

Hypsicera amica (Seyrig, 1934)

 

Hypsicera conviva (Seyrig, 1935)

 

Hypsicera cribrosa (Benoit, 1955)

Hypsicera femoralis (Geoffroy, 1785)

 

Hypsicera fuscipilosa (Cameron, 1905)

 

Hypsicera kenyensis (Seyrig, 1935)

Hypsicera lobata (Benoit, 1955)

Hypsicera major (Benoit, 1954)

 

Hypsicera minor (Benoit, 1954)

Hypsicera obsoleta (Benoit, 1955)

 

Hypsicera ruficoxis (Seyrig, 1934)

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Hosts: Anobidae, Chelartinae, Choretidae, Eariadinae, Gelechiinae, Nematinae, Oecophorinae, Olethreutinae, Pyralinae, Pyraustinae, Stratiomydae, Tineinae, Torticinae, Yponomeutinae.

Reference

Latreille, P.A. 1829. Des Ichneumons (Ichneumon) de Linnaeus. In: Cuvier M.L.B. "Le Règne Animal. Tome V. Ed. 2a." Paris. 556 pp. pp. 282-288.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
 

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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