| Virgichneumon maculicauda | |
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| Virgichneumon maculicauda - Male | |
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| Species: | V. maculicauda |
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| Virgichneumon maculicauda (Perkins, 1953) | |
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Virgichneumon maculicauda is a species belonging to the family Ichneumonidae subfamily Ichneumoninae. [1] [2]
This species is mainly found in Belgium, British Isles, Germany, Poland, France, Italy, Russia and Spain. [3]
Virgichneumon maculicauda has a black body and yellow-orange legs. On the tip of the abdomen, tergite 5 is stained with white spots (hence the species name maculicauda, meaning with spots on the tail). [4]
The Ichneumonidae, also known as the ichneumon wasps or ichneumonids, is a parasitoid wasp family within the insect order Hymenoptera. This insect family is among the most species-rich branches of the tree of life. At the same time, it is one of the groups for which our knowledge most severely lags behind their actual diversity. The roughly 25,000 species described today probably represent less than a quarter of their true richness, but reliable estimates are lacking, as is much of the most basic knowledge about their ecology, distribution and evolution. Ichneumonid wasps, with very few exceptions, attack the immature stages of holometabolous insects and spiders, eventually killing their hosts. They thus fulfill an important role as regulators of insect populations, both in natural and semi-natural systems, making them promising agents for biological control.
Thomas Ansell Marshall (1827–1903) was an English cleric and entomologist, mainly interested in Hymenoptera. He was the son of Thomas Marshall, one of the original members of the Royal Entomological Society of London.
Arnold Förster was a German entomologist, who worked mainly on Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.
Constantin Wesmael was a Belgian entomologist.
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