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Zatypota Förster

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

Zatypota Förster 1869. Type species: Ichneumon percontatorius Müller 1776.

 

Zatypota capicola Benoit,1959

 

Zatypota inexpectata (Seyrig,1932)

 

Zatypota prima Benoit,1953

 

 

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Hosts: Araneidae, Dictynidae, Metidae, Theridiinae, Tortricidae, Yponomeutidae

Reference

Förster, A. 1869. Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens. 25(1868):135-221.  

Müller, O.F. 1776. Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characteres, nomina et synomyma imprimis popularium. Hafniae. 282 pp. (Ichneumon on pp. 151-160)

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