Species Bathyplectes infernalis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References

Parasitic Wasp - Bathyplectes infernalis - female

Ichneumon - Bathyplectes infernalis - female

Bathyplectes infernalis? - 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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