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Enicospilus repentinus (Holmgren)

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

Ophion repentinus Holmgren 1860. Holotype: in Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm. Type locality:

Distribution

Enicospilus repentinus_map

Austria, Bulgaria, Egypt, Ethiopa, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhastan, Latvia, Malawi, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom

Biology

 Hosts: Agrotus ripae (Noctuinae), Lycia hirtaria (Ennominae), Phigalia pedaria (Ennominae), Trichoplusia orichalcea (Plussinae), Zerynthia rumina (Zerynthiinae)

Reference

 Holmgren, A.E. 1860. Försök till uppställning och beskrifning af de i Sverige funna Ophionider. (Monographia Ophionidum Sueciae). Kongliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar. 2(8):1-158.

Credits

 Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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