Itoplectis maculator (Fabricius 1775) (Family Ichneumonidae)


Female

Ovipositing on Yponomeuta padella

Length: 4.5-10mm;
Forewing Length: 3.4-7.7mm
Egg Larva Pupa Adult
? ? ? September - July
(Earliest: 12.5)

Biotopes:
Hedge Rows

Spruce Forest Edge
Food:
(Larva)

Gonepteryx rhamni Pupa

Pieris brassicae

Vanessa cardui Pupa

Several Erebidae Pupae

Several Geometridae Pupae

Several Gracillariidae Pupae

Several Noctuidae Pupae

Many Tortricidae

Several Yponomeutidae

Euthrix potatoria Pupa

Malacosoma neustria Pupa

Agonopterix assimilella Pupa

Agonopterix subpropinquella Pupa

Coleophora serratella Pupa

Coleophora vacciniella Pupa

Mompha conturbatella Pupa

Mompha epilobiella Pupa

Carcina quercana Pupa

Plutella xylostella Pupa

Psyche casta Pupa
Possible Food:
(Larva)

Lycaenidae Pupae

Nymphalidae Pupae

Argyresthiidae Pupae

Choreutidae Pupae

Other Coleophoridae Pupae

Other Elachistidae Pupae

Other Erebidae Pupae

Gelechiidae Pupae

Other Geometridae Pupae

Other Gracillariidae Pupae

Other Lasiocampidae Pupae

Other Noctuidae Pupae

Nolidae Pupae

Psychidae Pupae

Pterophoridae Pupae

Pyralidae Pupae

Other Tortricidae

Other Yponomeutidae Pupae

Ypsolophidae Pupae

Zygaenidae Pupae
Food:
(Adult)

Heracleum sphondylium Nectar

Tanacetum vulgare Nectar

Nature Spot: Itoplectis maculator


Pictures © 2003, 2006 J.K. Lindsey

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