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Species Xorides stigmapterus

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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 Xoridinae
Genus Xorides
Species stigmapterus (Xorides stigmapterus)
Explanation of Names
Xorides stigmapterus (Say 1824)
Range
subarctic LB‒AK to MN‒IA‒FL
Season
In Florida, maximum abundance in spring. Farther north, most abundant in summer but may appear as early as Apr and as late as Nov
Food
Associated with Anoplodera proxima & Dryobius sexnotatus (Cerambycidae)
Remarks
head and thorax mostly black in specimens from the north, red in material from se.US (MD‒FL along the Coastal Plain)
‘X. stigmapterus’ may be a species complex
Print References
Porter C.C. (2005) New records of Xorides (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Xoridinae) from Florida. Insecta Mundi 19: 187‒190.