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Parania Morley

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

Parania Morley 1913. Type species: Parania nototrachoides Morley 1913.

Parania_prima_HOLOTYPE

Parania prima Gauld, 1980

 

 

Parania secunda Gauld, 1980

Parania_nototrachoides_LECTOTYPE

Parania tricolor Gauld, 1980

 

Biology

Endoparasitoids of moth (Lepidoptera) caterpillars.

Reference

 

Morley, C. 1913. A revision of the Ichneumonidae based on the collection in the British Museum (Natural History) with descriptions of new genera and species. Part II. Tribes Rhyssides, Echthromorphides, Anomalides and Paniscides. London, British Museum. 140pp.

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