Acroricnus seductor

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Acroricnus seductor
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Acroricnus seductor. Museum specimen
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Genus: Acroricnus
Species:
A. seductor
Binomial name
Acroricnus seductor
(Scopoli, 1786)
Synonyms
  • Acroricnus ruficornis(Forster, 1855)
  • Acroricnus seductorius(Fabricius, 1793)

Acroricnus seductor is a species of wasp belonging to the family Ichneumonidae. [1]

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Subspecies

Subspecies of A. seductor include: [2]

Biology

These ichneumonid wasps parasitize larvae of Sceliphron spirifex , Sceliphron destillatorium and Sceliphron caementarium . [3] Females of this species deposit eggs inserting the ovipositor through the mud wall of their host nest. [4]

Distribution

This species is present in Europe, in the Near East, in North Africa and in the Oriental ecozone. [5]

References

  1. Biolib
  2. Catalogue of life
  3. Maurizio Mei, Giorgio Pezzi, Remo De Togni, Umberto Devincenzo The oriental mud-dauber wasp Chalybion bengalense (Dahlbom) introduced in Italy (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)
  4. Carlo Polidori · Matteo Federici · Pablo Mendiola · Jesús Selfa · Francesco Andrietti - Host detection and rate of parasitism by Acroricnus seductor (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), a natural enemy of mud-dauber wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)
  5. Fauna europaea