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Simophion Cushman

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

Simophion Cushman 1947. Type species: Simophion excarinatus Cushman 1947.

ClassificationIdentification keys

 

Simophion calvus Viktorov, 1961

Distribution

Simophion_map

Holarctic: Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, U.S.A., Neotropical: Panama.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Cushman, R.A. 1947. A generic revision of the Ichneumon-flies of the tribe Ophionini. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 96: 417-482.

Gauld, I.D. & Mitchell, P.A. 1978. The taxonomy, distribution and host preferences of African parasitic wasps of the subfamily Ophioninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Slough, England, 287 pp.

Credits

Map illustration © 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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