Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) ➔ Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods) ➔ Class Insecta (Insects) ➔ Order Hymenoptera (Sawflies, wasps, ants, bees) ➔ Family Ichneumonidae (Ichneumon wasps)
Diplazon laetatorius (Fabricius, 1781)
Synonyms and other combinations:
Diplazon albovarius (Wollaston, 1858) | Diplazon attractus (Say, 1835) | Diplazon balearicus (Kriechbaumer, 1894) | Diplazon cinctipes (Holmgren, 1868) | Diplazon dichrous (Schrank, 1781) | Diplazon generosus (Cameron, 1898) | Diplazon ikiti (Cheesman, 1936) | Diplazon senegalensis (Ferriere, 1925) | Diplazon sycophanta (Cresson, 1868) | Diplazon terminalis (Davis, 1895) | Diplazon tripicticrus (Walsh, 1873) | Diplazon varipes (Smith, 1878) | Diplazon venustulus (Saussure, 1892) |
Classification:
Diplazon laetatorius belongs to the subfamily Diplazontinae.Annotation:
In Fuerteventura I found 2 puparia of hoverflies on Oleander (Nerium oleander) populated with many yellow plant lice. From the first puparium, a Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) developed, whose larvae feed on aphids mainly.
A few days later the ichneumonid Diplazon laetatorius shown here emerged from the second puparium. It feeds as larva from the hoverfly host, kills the hoverfly larva and completes its development in the puparium of the host.
Diplazon laetatorius is an almost worldwide common species. The Diplazontinae are koinobiont endoparasitoids of hoverflies.
References, further reading, links:
- Dicky S. Yu, Kees van Achterberg & Klaus Horstmann: World Ichneumonoidea 2011, Taxapad 2012
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