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Species Neotypus nobilitator

Hazy image of Ichneumon - Neotypus nobilitator - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)

Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps)

Family Ichneumonidae (Ichneumonid Wasps)

Subfamily Ichneumoninae

Tribe Listrodromini (Ichneumonini: Listrodromus genus group)

Genus Neotypus

Species nobilitator (Neotypus nobilitator)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Neotypus nobilitator (Gravenhorst, 1807)

Remarks

"The species [...] had been regarded as an invader here, but I wasn't aware of any host records when I did the ichneumonids in the 1979 catalog, but I now find that the Asian subspecies has been reared from Cupido argiades. This causes me to wonder if any of the Polyommatinae in North America are known to be or suspected of being invaders from Europe. [...] European ichneumonids came to North America with the influx of European human immigrants usually piggy-backed on a host." (Bob Carlson, pers. comm. to =v=, 11/9/09)

I don't know why I said that in 2009; in the Hymenoptera Catalog, I cited Cupido comyntas, the eastern tailed-blue, as a host. Moreover, Taxapad lists a total of 14 Lycaenids as associates of Neotypus nobilitator.

Contributed by Bob Carlson on 8 November, 2009 - 3:41pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 4 June, 2016 - 4:30pm

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