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Exeristes roborator (Fabricius)

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

Ichneumon roborator Fabricius 1793. Holotype: in Universitets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen. Type locality:

 

 

 

 

Distribution

Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, China, Czechoslovakia, Czec Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Maderia Islands, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Uinted Kingdom, Yugoslavia

Biology

Hosts: Adleria kollari (Cynipinae), Cydia cosmophonora (Olethreurtinae), Hemimene regiana (Olethreurtinae), Lyctus pubescens (Bostrichihidae), Ptilinus pectinicornis (Anobiidae), Rhyacionia buoliana (Olethreurtinae), Rhyacionia resinella (Olethreurtinae), Segestria senoculata (Segestriidae), Steraspis squamosa (Buprestidae), Yponomeuta malinella (Yponomeutinae), Yponomeuta rorella (Yponomeutinae)

Reference

Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Tom. II. Hafniae. 519 pp. 43:123-135.

Credits

HOLOTYPE Exercistes roborator Photographs Aisha Mayekiso (Iziko) © Universitets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen.

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