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Dictyonotus Kriechbaumer

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

Dictyonotus Kriechbaumer 1894. Type species: Ophion melanarius Kriechbaumer 1894.

 

Dictyonotus magnificus Morley, 1912

  Dictyonotus fulvipes (Tosquinet,1903)
  Dictyonotus nigrocyaneus (Tosquinet,1903)
  Dictyonotus setus (Gauld & Mitchell,1978)

Distribution

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Afrotropical: Namibia, South Africa, Madagascar, Oriental: China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Palearctic: Korea, Russia

Biology

Hosts: Ampelophaga rubiginosa (Sphingidae), Lophostethus dumolinii (Sphingidae)

Reference

Kriechbaumer, J. 1894. In: Sickmann F. "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Hymenopteren-Fauna des nördlichen China." pp. 197-198. Zoologische Jahrbücher Abteilung für Systematik. 8(1895):195-236. 

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