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Genus Bathyplectes

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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 Campopleginae
Genus Bathyplectes
Numbers
7 spp. north of Mexico(1)
Range
Holarctic(2)
Food
Known hosts include only weevils of the genus Hypera(1)
Print References
Soroka, Juliana & Bennett, Andrew & Kora, Cezarina & Schwarzfeld, Marla. (2020). Distribution of alfalfa weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and its parasitoids on the Canadian Prairies, with a key to described species of Nearctic Bathyplectes (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). The Canadian Entomologist. 152. 1-39. 10.4039/tce.2020.35.
Works Cited
1.Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog
2.Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae
Contributed by Bob Carlson on 6 November, 2009 - 1:24pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 4 April, 2022 - 12:12am

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