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Phytodietus Gravenhorst

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

Phytodietus Gravenhorst, 1829. Type species: Phytodietus astutus Gravenhorst, 1829.

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Host: Homona coffearia (Tortricidae).

References

Benoit, P.L.G. 1959. Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae (Banchinae, Bassinae, Pimplinae and Tryphoninae). South African Animal Life 6: 441-482.

Gravenhorst, J.L.C. 1829. Ichneumonologia Europaea. Pars II. Vratislaviae. 989 pp.

Kostro-Ambroziak, A. 2010. Phytodietus (Weisia) queenslandicus, a new species from Australia (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Annales Zoologici, 60(4): 553–557.

Kostro-Ambroziak, A. 2011. Phytodietus (Weisia) pearlus sp. nov. from South Africa (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Annales Zoologici (Warszawa) 61(4): 803-805.

Yu, D. S, van Achterberg, C. K. & K. Horstmann. 2005. World Ichneumonidae 2004. Taxonomy, Biology, Morphology and Distribution. CD/DVD. Taxapad, Vancouver, Canada. www.taxapad.com

Credits

Photographs by Nadene Smith © Iziko Museums or photographs © OLEKSANDR VARGA (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Ukraine).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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