Itoplectis is a genus of insect belonging to the family Ichneumonidae.[1]
The genus was first described by Förster in 1869.[1]
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.[1]
Species:
Itoplectis conquisitor (Say, 1836) [2]
Itoplectis maculator (Fabricius, 1775)[1]
Itoplectis melanocephala (Gravenhorst, 1829) - hosts include Galleria mellonella, Aletia impura, Chilo phragmitellus, Depressaria daucella, Depressaria pastinacella, and Leucania obsoleta.[3]
Itoplectis mexicanus - host is the pupa of Coptocycla texana[4]
Itoplectis naranyae (Ashmeade 1906) [5]
^ abcd"Itoplectis Förster, 1869". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
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^Gürbüz, Mehmet Faruk; Kolarov, Janko; Buncukçu, Ayşegül (10 July 2009). "A Survey of Itoplectis melanocephala (Grav.) - A New Ichneumonid Endoparasite on Wax Moth Galleria mellonella L." Journal of the Entomological Research Society. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
^Kasparyan, D. R; Niño, S. (2004). "A new species of Itoplectis Förster from Mexico (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)" (PDF). Zoosystematica Rossica. 13 (1): 49–51. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
^Ueno, Takatoshi; Ueno, Kanako (August 2007). "The Effects of Host-Feeding on Synovigenic Egg Development in An Endoparasitic Wasp, Itoplectis naranyae". Journal of Insect Science. 7 (46): 1–13. doi:10.1673/031.007.4601. PMC 2999447.
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