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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) » Cryptinae » Aptesini » Megaplectes » Megaplectes monticola

Species Megaplectes monticola

Classification · Numbers · Works Cited
Ichneumon - Megaplectes monticola - female Blue wasp with white antenna bands - Megaplectes monticola - female Megaplectes monticola male - Megaplectes monticola - male Megaplectes monticola ssp. blakei - Megaplectes monticola Megaplectes monticola ssp. blakei - Megaplectes monticola
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 Aptesini
Genus Megaplectes
Species monticola (Megaplectes monticola)
Numbers
2 sspp. in our area(1)
1. Megaplectes monticola blakei: widespread northern (NL to YT to MB, w. NC, MI, OR)
2. Megaplectes monticola dentatus: far northernwestern (YT; AK)
Works Cited
1.Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog
Contributed by Bob Carlson on 5 September, 2010 - 4:25pm
Additional contributions by PaleoJon
Last updated 18 March, 2021 - 4:51am

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