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Theronia Holmgren

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

Theronia Holmgren 1859. Type species: Ichneumon flavicans Fabricius 1973.

 

Theronia angustatrix Seyrig,1934

Theronia lurida Tosquinet,1896

Theronia univittata Seyrig,1935
  Theronia species

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Endoparasitoid or hyperparasitoid (through Ichneumonidae) of Lepidoptera.

Reference

Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Tom. II. Hafniae. 519 pp.

Holmgren, A.E. 1859. Conspectus generum Pimplariarum Sueciae. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 16:121-132.

Credits

Photograph of living specimen © Vida van der Walt (Pretoria).

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