Sathropterus Förster

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

Sathropterus Förster 1869. Type species: Thersilochus pumilus Holmgren 1860.

Sathropterus pumilus (Holmgren, 1860)

Distribution

South Africa.

Also Australian: Australia; Palaearctic: Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom.

Biology

Host: unknown.

Reference

Förster, A. 1869. Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens. 25(1868):135-221.  

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).

Next genus: Tersilochus

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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