''Ichneumon sarcitorius'' is a species of wasp belonging to the family

Ichneumonidae The Ichneumonidae, also known as the ichneumon wasps, Darwin wasps, or ichneumonids, are a family (biology), family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera. They are one of the most diverse groups within the Hymenoptera with roughly 2 ...

subfamily

Ichneumoninae Ichneumoninae is a worldwide subfamily of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae. Ichneumoninae are koinobiont or idiobiont endoparasitoids of Lepidoptera. It is the second largest subfamily of Ichneumonidae, with 373 genera. Ichneumonines a ...

Subspecies

Subspecies within this species include: * ''Ichneumon sarcitorius albosignatus'' Torka, 1930 * ''Ichneumon sarcitorius caucasicus'' Meyer, 1926 * ''Ichneumon sarcitorius chosensis'' Uchida, 1927 * ''Ichneumon sarcitorius corsus'' Kriechbaumer, 1888 * ''Ichneumon sarcitorius repetitor'' Kriechbaumer, 1882 * ''Ichneumon sarcitorius turkestanicus'' (Heinrich, 1929)

Description

''Ichneumon sarcitorius'' can reach a length of in the males, of in the females.Commanster
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Biology

Adults can be found from July to October. Larvae feed on caterpillars of

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Agrotis segetum ''Agrotis segetum'', sometimes known as the turnip moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is a common European species and it is found in Africa and across ...

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Arctiidae The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.Scoble, MJ. (1995). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and D ...

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, while adults mainly feed on nectar of umbellifers (''

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Distribution

This species is present in most of Europe, in the

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, in the

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, and in

North Africa North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...

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Bibliography

* Constantineanu, M.I.; Suciu, I.; Andriescu, I.; Ciochia, V.; Pisica, C. (1957) ontributions a la connaissance des Ichneumonides en R.P.Roumaine. Sousfamille Ichneumoninae Forster arondissement de Husi region de Iassy.(in Romanian with Russian & French summaries)., Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii "Al. I. Cuza" din Iasi. Sect. II a. 3:234-263. * Berthoumieu, V. (1895) Ichneumonides d'Europe et des pays limitrophes., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France. 63(1894):593-664. * Zetterstedt, J.W. (1838) Insecta Lapponica. Sectio secunda. Hymenoptera., Lipsiae. 358-408. * Gmelin, J.F. (1790) Caroli a Linne Systema Naturae (Ed. XIII). Tom I., G.E. Beer. Lipsiae. 2225-3020. (Ichneumon: 2674-2722). * Fourcroy, A.F. (1785) Entomologia Parisiensis, sive catalogus insectorum quae in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur., Paris. 544 pp. * Muller, O.F. (1776) Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characteres, nomina et synomyma imprimis popularium., Hafniae. 282 pp. (Ichneumon on pp. 151–160) * Linnaeus, C. von (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata., Laurnetii Salvii, Holmiae. 824 pp. (A photographic facsimile by British Museum (Natural History), London. 1956.)

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