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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

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Endoparasitoid or hyperparasitoid (through Ichneumonidae) of Lepidoptera.

References

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.

Seyrig, A. 1934. Les Ichneumonides de Madagascar. II Ichneumonidae Tryphoninae et Supplement aux I. Pimplinae. Mémoires de l'Académie Malgache 19: 1-111.

Seyrig, A. 1935. Mission scientifique de l'Omo. Tome III. Fascicule 18. Hymenoptera, II. Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae, Pimplinae, Tryphoninae et Ophioninae. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris 4: 1-100.

Tosquinet, J. 1896. Contributions à la faune entomologique de l'Afrique. Ichneumonides. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 5: 1-430.

Credits

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

Photographs of holotype © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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