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Xenolytus Förster

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

Xenolytus Förster 1869. Type species: Xenolytus rufipes Cameron 1906.

Xenolytus_bitinctus_NON-TYPE

 Xenolytus bitinctus (Gmelin, 1790)

 

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

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

Reference

Cameron, P. 1906. Descriptions of some new species of Hymenoptera from Pearston, Cape Colony. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 16:323-333.

Förster, A. 1869. Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens. 25(1868):135-221.

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