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Plectiscus Gravenhorst

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

Plectiscus Gravenhorst 1829. Type species: Plectiscus impurator Gravenhorst 1829.

Plectiscus oblongus Varga, 2024 (Kenya)
 

Plectiscus pomariorum (Seyrig, 1934) (Madagscar)

Plectiscus taitaensis Varga, 2024 (Kenya)

Distribution

 

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Afrotropical: Kenya, Madagascar. Holarctic: Austria, Belguim, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Madeira Islands, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, U.S.A., United Kingdom.

Biology

Hosts: Pennisetia hylaeformis (Sesiidae), Scaria nigripennis (Sciaridae).

References

Gravenhorst, J.L.C. 1829. Ichneumonologia Europaea. Pars II. Vratislaviae. 989 pp.

Varga, O. 2024. Two new species of the genus Plectiscus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae: Orthocentrinae) from Kenya. Zootaxa, 5453 (2), 291–297. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5453.2.10

Yu DSK, van Achterberg C, Horstmann K (2016) Taxapad 2016, World Ichneumonoidea 2015. Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Taxapad interactive catalogue database. Nepean, Ontario, Canada. [On flash-drive]

Credits

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

 

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