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Neotheronia Krieger

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

Neotheronia Krieger 1899. Type species: Theoronia tolteca Cresson 1874.

 

Neotheronia embolema (Benoit,1964)

 

Neotheronia interrupta Szépligeti,1908

 

Neotheronia melanocera (Holmgren,1868)

 

Neotheronia ruwenzorica (Benoit,1952)

Distribution

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Afrotropical: Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Nearctic:  U.S.A., Neotropical: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Gaudelope, Gautemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Uruguay, Venezuela

Biology

Hosts: Agyrostagma niobe (Lymantriidae), Belvosia sp. (Tachinidae), Eunica monima modesta (Nymphalidae), Euprocrotis terminalis (Lymantriidae), Phakellura hyalinata (Pyralidae), Syssphinx molina (Saturniidae), Trichoplusia orchalcea (Noctuidae), Tromatobia rufopectus (Ichneumonidae), Zonopimpla carolinae (Ichneumonidae)

Reference

Cresson, E.T. 1874. Descriptions of Mexican Ichneumonidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1873:374-413.

Krieger, R. 1899. Über einige mit Pimpla verwandte Ichneumonidengattungen. Sitzungsberichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Leipzig. 1897/98: 47-124.

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