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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Agathidinae » Agathidini » Alabagrus » Alabagrus texanus

Species Alabagrus texanus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Braconidae (Braconid Wasps)
Subfamily Agathidinae
Tribe Agathidini
Genus Alabagrus
Species texanus (Alabagrus texanus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Alabagrus texanus (Cresson, 1872)
Agathis texana (Cresson, 1872)
Orig. comb.: Microdus texanus Cresson, 1872
Range
NY south to FL, west to KS & TX(1)
Food
Larval hosts include a number of species of crambid snout moths: Microthyris anormalis, Herpetogramma theseusalis, Pantographa limata, Rhectocraspeda periusalis, Pilocrocis ramentalis, Lygropia tripunctata (?), Patania silicalis, & Orphanostigma haemorrhoidalis.(1)
Internet References
Encyclopedia of Life
Works Cited
1.Marsh, Paul M. Braconidae catalog (online 2009) — in Krombein et al. (1979) Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 20 September, 2007 - 1:38pm
Additional contributions by PaleoJon
Last updated 11 January, 2023 - 8:26pm

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