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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) » Campopleginae » Bathyplectes » Bathyplectes infernalis

Species Bathyplectes infernalis

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Ichneumon wasp - Bathyplectes infernalis - female Ichneumon - Bathyplectes infernalis - female Ichneumon - Bathyplectes infernalis - female Bathyplectes infernalis? - Bathyplectes infernalis - female Wasp - Bathyplectes infernalis - female Wasp - Bathyplectes infernalis - female Wasp - Bathyplectes infernalis - female Wasp - Bathyplectes infernalis - female

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
Species infernalis (Bathyplectes infernalis)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

=Bathyplectes tristis, Biolysia tristis

Range

Of European origin.

Food

Host: the clover leaf weevil, Hypera zoilus

Remarks

Like its host, the clover leaf weevil, this species is a European immigrant. Although it is generally thelytokous (i.e. females only), I have seen males from NJ, PA, MD, and VA. Males are perhaps even rarer in Europe because in a 1974 revision of the western Palearctic species now placed in Bathyplectes, Horstmann did not mention having seen any.

Print References

Horstmann, K. 1974. Revision der westpaläarktischen Arten der Schlupfwespen-Gattungen Bathyplectes und Biolysia (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Entomologica Germanica 1:58-81.
Contributed by Bob Carlson on 23 November, 2009 - 6:32am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 13 January, 2010 - 11:58am

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