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Cryptopimpla Taschenberg

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

Cryptopimpla Taschenberg 1863. Type species: Phytodietus blandus Viereck 1914.

Cryptopimpla_rubrithorax_HOLOTYPE

Cryptopimpla rubrithorax Morley, 1916

Distribution

Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Palaearctic and Oriental regions

Biology

Parasitoid  of beetle (Coleoptera) and moth (Lepidoptera) larva.

References

Taschenberg, E.L. 1863. Die Schlupfwespenfamilie Pimplariae der deutschen Fauna, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Umgegend von Halle. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. 21: 245-305.  

 

Viereck, H.L. 1914. Type species of the genera of Ichneumon flies. United States National Museum Bulletin. No.83. 186pp.

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