Ichneumon (wasp)

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Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Hexapoda Order Hymenoptera		Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta Suborder Apocrita

Ichneumon is a genus of parasitic wasps in the family Ichneumonidae.

Selected species

This genus include about 270 species:

Ichneumon extensorius Linnaeus 1758

Ichneumon insidiosus Wesmael, 1844

Ichneumon nyassae Heinrich,1967

Ichneumon rubriornatus Cameron,1904

Ichneumon sarcitorius Linnaeus, 1758

Ichneumon tottor Thunberg,1822

Ichneumon unicinctus Brullé,1846

In the eighteenth century it was regarded as an instance of the God-given balance in nature; in the nineteenth the possibility of using it as a form of biocontrol was briefly entertained. It was used as the symbol of the reformed Entomological Society of London in 1833.

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Ichneumon (wasp) Wikipedia

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