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Xenolytus bitinctus (Gmelin)

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

Ichneumon bitinctus Gmelin 1790. Holotype: desposition unknown Type locality

Distribution

Xenolytus bitinctus_map

Afrotropical: South Africa, Indo-Australian: Australia, India, New Zealand, Holarctic: Austria, Azerbaijin, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czechoslavakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, U.S.A., United Kingdom

Biology

Hosts: Bupalus piniarus (Geometridae), Chrysoesthia sp. (Gelechiidae)

Reference

 

Credits

HOLOTYPE Xenolytus bitinctus Photographs Simon van Noort Iziko Museums.

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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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