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Stauropoctonus Brauns

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

Stauropoctonus Brauns 1889. Type species: Ophion bombycivorus Gravenhorst 1829.

 

Stauropoctonus occipitalis Gauld & Mitchell, 1978

Distribution

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Indo-Australian: Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Papa New Guinea, Philippines, Neotropical: Panama, Venezuela, Palearctic: Austria, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Korea, Poland, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom

Biology

Hosts: Actias artemis (Saturniidae), Stauropus gafi (Notodontidae)

Reference

Brauns, S. 1889. Die Ophionoiden. Archiv des Vereins der Freunde der Naturgeschichte in Mecklenburg. 43:73-100.  

Gravenhorst, J.L.C. 1829. Ichneumonologia Europaea. Pars III. Vratislaviae. 1097 pp.

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