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Virgichneumon maculicauda
Virgichneumon maculicauda is a species belonging to the family Ichneumonidae subfamily Ichneumoninae. It is a parasitoid of the Cinnabar moth.
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Description
Virgichneumon maculicauda has a black body and yellow-orange legs. On the tip of the abdomen, tergite 5 is stained with white spots (hence the species name maculicauda, meaning with spots on the tail).
Range & habitat
This species is mainly found in Belgium, British Isles, Germany, Poland, France, Italy, Russia and Spain.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1397104.