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Species Itoplectis conquisitor

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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 Pimplinae
Tribe Pimplini
No Taxon (Pimpla genus-group)
Genus Itoplectis
Species conquisitor (Itoplectis conquisitor)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cryptus conquisitor Say, 1836
Identification
Female with forelegs fulvous. often whitish above; middle legs fulvous, tibiae often darker above, with a premedian white band, tarsi white with dark apices; hind legs with the femora fulvous, tibiae dark with a submedian white band, and tarsi white with dark apices. Abdominal tergites with narrow apical white bands (not tan or dark as in allies) and ovipositor about 2.2x the length of the first tergite. Male similar in coloration but with fore coxae, fore trochanters, and middle trochanters whitish rather than fulvous.(1)

Range
PE s. to FL, w. to BC and CA; Mexico s.to Ecuador.
Season
Adults from spring to late fall(1)
Food
The hosts of this species are very numerous and include many species of Lepidoptera as well as some species of other Ichneumonidae that parasitize Lepidoptera, which indicates that the species is at least sometimes hyperparasitic. Among the known hosts of the species are the bagworm Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis and the crambid genus Herpetogramma, but there have been many rearings from economically important genera like Choristoneura and Rhyacionia.
Remarks
"One of the most common of all North American ichneumonid species" -- Bob Carlson
Works Cited
1.Ichneumon-Flies of America North of Mexico: 2. Subfamilies Ephialtinae, Xoridinae, and Acaenitinae
Henry Townes and Marjorie Townes. 1960. Bulletin - United States National Museum, Vol. 216, Part 2, pp. 1–676.