Orthocentrus Seyrig

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

Orthocentrus Gravenhorst 1829. Type species: Orthocentrus anomalus Gravenhorst 1829.

Orthocentrus longiceps Seyrig, 1935

Orthocentrus limpidus Seyrig, 1935

Orthocentrus mediocris Seyrig, 1934

Orthocentrus pulcher Seyrig, 1934

Orthocentrus punctatissimus Benoit, 1954

Orthocentrus rovensis Seyrig, 1934

Orthocentrus semiflavus Seyrig, 1935

Orthocentrus urbanus Seyrig, 1934

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Hosts: Balaninus glandium (Curculionidae), Delia radicum (Anthomyiidae), Eledona agaricola (Tenebrionidae), Gilpinia hercyniae (Diprionidae), Hylemya flavopicta (Anthomyiidae), Leopus nebulosus (Cerambycidae), Paratinia sp. (Mycetophilidae), Saperda populnea (Cerambycidae), Saperda scalaris (Cerambycidae), Sciophila hirta (Mycetophilidae), Sciophila rufa (Mycetophilidae)

Reference

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

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