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Campoletis Förster

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

Campoletis Förster 1869. Type species: Mesoleptus tibiator Cresson 1864.

Limneria_africana

Campoletis cinctula (Holmgren, 1868)

Campoletis_pedunculata_HOLOTYPE

Campoletis pedunculata (Enderlein, 1914)
Campoletis_sordicincta_HOLOTYPE

Campoletis sordicincta (Morley, 1916)  

Distribution

 Worldwide

Biology

 Koinobiont endoparasitoids of lepidopteran (butterfly & moths) and coleopteran (beetle) larva.

Reference

Cresson, E.T. 1864. Descriptions of North American Hymenoptera in the collection of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 3: 257-321.

 

Förster, A. 1869. Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 25: 135-221

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