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Agrothereutes saturniae
(Boie, 1855)
Overview
Taxonomy
Description
Biology
A gregarious parasitoid. Known to emerge from host cocoon.
The recorded hosts are Phalaena pavonia and Saturnia pavonia.
The recorded parasitoids are
Gelis proximus
,
Mastrus deminuens
and
Zoophthorus palpator
.
Distribution
Known from the Palaearctic realm with records from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Poland and the United Kingdom.
Accepted name
Agrothereutes saturniae
(Boie, 1855)
Original name
Cryptus saturniae
Taxonomic level
species
Combination history
Agrothereutes
Cryptus
Gambrus
Hoplocryptus
Spilocryptus
Synonyms
Agrothereutes pavoniae
This text has been automatically generated based on data from Taxapad (Yu et. al, 2016) and may contain errors or incoplete information.
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References
Yu, D.S.K., van Achterberg, C. & Horstmann, K. 2016. Taxapad 2016, Ichneumonoidea 2015 (Biological and taxonomical information), Taxapad Interactive Catalogue Database on flashdrive. Nepean, Ottawa.