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Genus Aoplus

Ichneumon - Aoplus thujarum - female Ichneumon - Aoplus thujarum - female Ichneumon - Aoplus velox - female Ichneumon - Aoplus velox - female Ichneumon - Aoplus velox - male Ichneumonini? - Aoplus velox - female Aoplus velox? - Aoplus velox - female Ichneumonidae, ex Horned Spanworm, dorsal - Aoplus - 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 Ichneumoninae
Tribe Ichneumonini
Genus Aoplus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Trachichneumon Viereck, 1912(1)(2)
Numbers
16 spp. in our area:(2)
1. Aoplus cestus (Cressonm, 1877)
2. Aoplus confirmatus (Cresson, 1877)
3. Aoplus groenlandicus (Lundbeck, 1897)
4. Aoplus limbatae Heinrich, 1962
5. Aoplus mathewi (Cameron, 1907)
6. Aoplus melanisticus Heinrich, 1962
7. Aoplus moilietti Heinrich, 1962
8. Aoplus monotonus Heinrich, 1962
9. Aoplus ochropis (Gmelin, 1790)
10. Aoplus permutabilis Heinrich, 1962
11. Aoplus pseudovelox Heinrich, 1962
12. Aoplus rarior Heinrich, 1962
13. Aoplus ruficeps (Gravenhorst, 1829)
14. Aoplus thujarum Heinrich, 1962
15. Aoplus torpidus (Wesmael, 1857)
16. Aoplus velox (Cresson, 1864)
Works Cited
1.Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog
2.Nomina Insecta Nearctica
Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.