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Eruga Townes

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

Eruga Townes 1960. Type species: Eruga lineata Townes & Townes 1960.

 

Eruga erratica (Seyrig,1932)

 

Eruga paulisiana (Benoit,1953)

 

Eruga viatrix (Seyrig,1932)

   
 

 

 

 

Distribution

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Afrotropical: Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Nearctic: Canada, Mexico, U.S.A., Neotropical: Costa Rica

Biology

Host: Linyphia communis (Linyphiidae)

Reference

Townes, H.K. 1960. The application of the name Syene (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 62:43.

Credits

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