(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Ophioninae)
Stauropoctonus Brauns, 1889. Type species: Ophion bombycivorus Gravenhorst, 1829.
Stauropoctonus occipitalis Gauld & Mitchell, 1978
Indo-Australian: Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Papa New Guinea, Philippines, Neotropical: Panama, Venezuela, Palearctic: Austria, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Korea, Poland, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom.
Hosts: Actias artemis (Saturniidae), Stauropus gafi (Notodontidae).
Brauns, S. 1889. Die Ophionoiden. Archiv des Vereins der Freunde der Naturgeschichte in Mecklenburg 43: 73-100.
Gauld, I.D. & Mitchell, P.A. 1978. The taxonomy, distribution and host preferences of African parasitic wasps of the subfamily Ophioninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Slough, England, 287 pp.
Gravenhorst, J.L.C. 1829. Ichneumonologia Europaea. Pars III. Vratislaviae. 1097 pp.
Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)
Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).
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