Classification
from Australian Faunal Directory
Order Hymenoptera - Wasps, Ants, Bees and Sawflies, 12202 named species in Australia
Family Ichneumonidae - parasitic wasps, 472 named species in Australia
Subfamily Campopleginae - 27 named species in Australia
Genus Hyposoter
Species Hyposoter bombycivorus
Description
From Cameron (1911), page 335.
LiMNERIUM BOMBYCIVORUM, Sp.n.
Female. Black, legs entirely lemon-yellow, femora deeper in tint than tibiae, palpi and tegulse of a paler yellow colour, wings clear hyaline, stigma and nervures black ; areolet absent : cubitus obliquely bent down from the transverse cubital ; transverse median nervure received shortly beyond transverse basal. Head and thorax opaque, covered with short white pubescence; abdomen smooth, bare and shining.
Length 7 mm.
Tasmania (A. Morton). A parasite on Bombyx larva. Head wider than thorax, wide, sharply obliquely narrowed. There is a stout transverse keel on the base of the metanotum, roundly bent towards base in middle. Abdomen much more shining than thorax, and smoother. Metanotum more densely pilose than the rest of thorax.
References
- Cameron, P. (1911) On a collection of parasitic Hymenoptera (chiefly bred) made by W. W. Frogatt, in New South Wales, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 36: 333-346