Therion circumflexum

Therion circumflexum is a species of ichneumon wasp in the family Ichneumonidae.

Therion circumflexum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Genus: Therion
Species:
T. circumflexum
Binomial name
Therion circumflexum
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]

Distribution

This species is widespread in large parts of the Palearctic ecozone (Europe, Asia, North Africa) and alco occurs in the Nearctic ecozone (North America).[2]

Description

Therion circumflexum can reach a body length of approximately 14–25 millimetres (0.55–0.98 in). The head and thorax of these relatively large parasitic wasps are predominantly black. The scutellum is yellow. The abdomen is predominantly orange. Usually the rear end and the top of the third tergites are black. The female has a short spike. The legs are yellow-orange. The posterior femur and posterior tibia have a dark brown apical end. The wings are orange-hyaline. In the clypeus the median apicali tooth is missing and the hind tarsal claws are evenly curved.[3]

Biology

The adult parasitoid wasps of this species fly from mid-June to September. They parasitize various butterfly species. These butterflies include the small engrailed (Ectropis crepuscularia), the privet hawk moth (Sphinx ligustri), the pine hawk-moth (Sphinx pinastri), the pebble prominent (Notodonta ziczac) and a number of moths (Noctuidae). The female wasp lays its eggs in the caterpillars. The hatched larvae feed on the caterpillar and pupates later in a thin web.[4]

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References
  1. Catalogue of life
  2. Fauna Europaea
  3. D & JP Balmer: Therion circumflexum (L. 1758) at Flickr
  4. Commanster
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