Species Messatoporus discoidalis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Food · Works Cited

Zebra-striped ichneumon - Messatoporus discoidalis - female

Spheledon sp.? - Messatoporus discoidalis - male

Ichneumon Wasp female - Messatoporus discoidalis - female

Ichneumonid Wasps - Laterial - Messatoporus discoidalis - female

Ichneumonid Wasps - Anterior - Messatoporus discoidalis - female

Ichneumonid Wasps - Posterior - Messatoporus discoidalis - 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 Cryptinae

Tribe Cryptini

Subtribe Osprynchotina

Genus Messatoporus

Species discoidalis (Messatoporus discoidalis)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Messatoporus discoidalis (Cresson, 1872)

Mesostenus jocosus Provancher, 1874

Orig. comb.: Mesostenus discoidalis Cresson, 1872

Santos & Aguiar (2013) further consider M. rufiventris to be a junior synonym of M. discoidalis as merely a color variation.(1)

Explanation of Names

Messatoporus discoidalis (Cresson, 1872)

from the New Latin discoidālis ('discoidal')

Food

Known larval hosts include Auplopus mellipes mellipes, Ageniella conflicta, and Phanagenia bombycina (Pompilidae).(1) Additional host records for Ceropales maculata fraterna are considered by Townes as misidentified records that are "doubtless cells of Auplopus or Phanagenia."(2)

Works Cited

1.	Phylogeny and revision of Messatoporus Cushman (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae), with description of sixty five new speci Bernardo Santos and Alexandre P. Aguiar. 2013. Zootaxa, 3634(1), 1-284.

2.	Ichneumon-Flies of America North of Mexico: 3. Subfamily Gelinae, Tribe Mesostenini Henry Townes, Marjorie Townes. 1962. United States National Museum Bulletin, 216(3): 1-602.

Contributed by Bob Carlson on 3 December, 2009 - 11:56am
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 6 January, 2025 - 3:30pm

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