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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) » Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonidae) » Tryphoninae » Exenterini » Exenterus

Genus Exenterus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Food · Works Cited

Ichneumon from diprionid cocoon - Exenterus

Ichneumonidae - Ichneumon Wasps Genus Exenterus - Exenterus

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 Tryphoninae

Tribe Exenterini

Genus Exenterus

Explanation of Names

Exenterus Hartig 1837

from the Ancient Greek ἐξ or ἐκ ex- ('out of, dis-') + ἔντερον énteron ('bowel'), signifying 'disemboweled'(1)

Numbers

15 spp. in our area:(2)(3)

1. Exenterus abruptorius (Thunberg, 1822): ON, QC (introduced)

2. Exenterus adspersus Hartig, 1838: NB (introduced but not established)

3. Exenterus affinis Rohwer, 1920: ON, QC; ME

4. Exenterus amictorius (Panzer, 1801): NS south to WV, west to ND (introduced)

5. Exenterus canadensis Provancher, 1883: QC south to FL, west to WI and LA

6. Exenterus confusus Kerrich, 1952: NB, ON, QC (introduced)

7. Exenterus hullensis Provancher, 1886: ON, QC; MI, NH

8. Exenterus lophyri Viereck, 1911: AZ, NE

9. Exenterus nigrifrons Rohwer, 1920: NS south to FL, west to MN and TX

10. Exenterus pini Cushman, 1940: AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NE, NV

11. Exenterus platypes Cushman, 1943: ON, QC; MN, NC

12. Exenterus tricolor Roman, 1913: NB, QC; NH, VT (introduced)

13. Exenterus tsugae Cushman, 1940: BC; CA, ID, MT, OR

14. Exenterus vellicatus Cushman, 1940: NF, NS, ON, PE, QC; ME, NY

15. Exenterus walleyi Cushman, 1943: NB, ON

Identification

Key to species by Cushman (1940): A Review of the Parasitic Wasps of the Ichneumonid Genus Exenterus Hartig.

* Note: E. amictorius is represented as E. marginatorius

Food

Larvae of Diprionidae.(3)

Works Cited

1.	The pronunciation and derivation of the names of the genera and subgenera of the family Ichneumonidae found in North America… H. Pearson Hopper. 1959. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 61(4): 155-171.

2.	Nomina Insecta Nearctica Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.

3.	Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog

Contributed by John R. Maxwell on 28 September, 2009 - 12:19pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Bob Carlson, PaleoJon
Last updated 11 January, 2022 - 2:14am

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