Plectiscidea Viereck

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

Plectiscidea Viereck 1914. Type species: Plectiscus collaris Viereck 1914.

Plectiscidea separata (Seyrig, 1934)

Distribution

Afrotropical, Holarctic & Oceanic regions

Biology

Hosts: Apolephtisa subincana (Mycetophilidae), Blastophagus piniperda (Scolytidae), Choristoneura murinana (Mycetophilidae), Exechia fusca (Mycetophilidae), Mycetophila fungorum (Mycetophilidae), Mycetophila lineola (Mycetophilidae), Mycetophila ruficollis (Mycetophilidae), Trichonta submaculata (Mycetophilidae)

Reference

Viereck, H.L. 1914. Type species of the genera of Ichneumon flies. United States National Museum Bulletin. No.83. 186pp. (453)

Credits

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

Next genus: Plectiscus

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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