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Lissonota Gravenhorst 

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

Lissonota Gravenhorst 1829. Type species: Ichneumon setosus Geoffrey 1785 

For synonyms see Townes 1970 or Townes & Townes 1978 or Yu 1998
 

Lissonota benoiti Townes, 1973
 

Lissonota deverser Gravenhorst, 1829
 

Lissonota halidayi Holmgren, 1860
Lissonota_pectinata_HOLOTYPE

Lissonota pectinata (Benoit, 1955)

 

Lissonota spilocephala Cameron, 1906

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Endoparasitoid (koinobiont) of Lepidoptera larva in concealed situations.

References

Gravenhorst, J.L.C. 1829. Ichneumonologia Europaea. Pars III. Vratislaviae. 1097 pp.

Townes, H.K. 1970. The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 3. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. No.13(1969). 307pp.

Townes, H.K. and Townes, M. 1978. Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 7. Subfamily Banchinae, tribes Lissonotini and Banchini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. No.26. 614pp.

Yu, D.S. 1998. Interactive Catalogue of World Ichneumonidae 1998. CD-ROM. Taxapad. Vancouver, Canada.

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