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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 goci (Reynolds Berry & van Noort, 2016)

 

Lissonota halidayi Holmgren, 1860

Lissonota_pectinata_HOLOTYPE

Lissonota pectinata (Benoit, 1955)

 

Lissonota spilocephala Cameron, 1906

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa.

Worldwide.

Biology

Endoparasitoid (koinobiont) of Lepidoptera larva in concealed situations.

References

Benoit, P.L.G. 1955. Contributions a l'étude des Ichneumonidae africains (Hymenoptera). I. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Sciences Zoologiques 38: 1-55.  

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

Reynolds Berry T & van Noort S 2016. Review of Afrotropical Cryptopimpla Taschenberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae), with description of nine new species. ZooKeys 640: 103–137. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.640.10334

Reynolds T, van Noort S. 2023. Two new species of the genus Cryptopimpla Taschenberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae) with an updated key to African species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96: 667-696. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.96.104038

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.

Credits

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

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

 

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Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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