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Gambrus incubitor Linnaeus

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Cryptinae; Tribe: Cryptini; Genus: Gambrus)

Gambrus incubitor Linnaeus, 1758. Holotype in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN). Type locality

Gambrus incertus Habermehl, 1935. Holotype in Zoologisches Staatsammlung, Munich (MCN). Type locality


Gambrus incertus Habermehl, 1935. Holotype in Zoologisches Staatsammlung, Munich (MCN).

 

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), taken with a hand-held Nikon FE2, 35 mm slide film and 105 mm macro lens in 2003.


Distribution

Kenya.

Also Palaearctic: Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Yugoslovakia.

Biology

Hosts: Amphipyrinae, Acronictinae, Cimbicinae, Ennominae, Hadeninae, Lasiocampinae, Plusiinae, Saturniinae, Sessiidae, Zygaeninae.

Reference

Linnaeus, C. von. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurnetii Salvii, Holmiae. 824 pp. (A photographic facsimile by British Museum (Natural History), London. 1956.)

Credits

Photographs and 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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