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Genus Philoctetes

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)

Superfamily Chrysidoidea (Cuckoo Wasps & allies)

Family Chrysididae (Cuckoo Wasps)

Subfamily Chrysidinae

Tribe Elampini

Genus Philoctetes

Explanation of Names

Philoctetes Abeille 1879

Numbers

8 spp. in our area, >40 worldwide(1)

Range

Holarctic (+one Afrotropical species), most diverse in C. Asia(1); in our area, w. NA (all spp.), Ph. plicatus also in ne. US & ON(2)

Food

known hosts: Pemphredoninae(2)

Internet References

Taxon page [data from(1)]

Works Cited

1.	The chrysidid wasps of the world Kimsey L.S., Bohart R.M. 1990. Oxford University Press. 652 pp.

2.	California Cuckoo Wasps in the Family Chrysididae (Hymenoptera) Lynn S. Kimsey. 2006. UC Press.

Contributed by Villu Soon on 5 September, 2010 - 1:16am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 19 November, 2013 - 5:59pm

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