Exochus Gravenhorst, 1829
(a genus of metopiine ichneumon wasps)

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Exochus gravipes
a metopiine ichneumon
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 		Species 28 images
Exochus lictor
a metopiine ichneumon
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 		Species 34 images
Exochus mitratus
a hymenopteran
Species 1 ident. refs
Exochus (unidentified)
Unidentified Exochus Metopiine Ichneumons
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 		Unidentified 19 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusExochus (a genus of metopiine ichneumon wasps)
SubfamilyMETOPIINAE (metopiine ichneumon wasps)
FamilyICHNEUMONIDAE (ichneumon wasps)
SuperfamilyICHNEUMONOIDEA (braconid and ichneumon parasitic wasps)
SuborderAPOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Ceballos, G. 1963 Orthocentrinae y Metopiinae de España (Hym. Ichneumonidae) EOS Vol 39 (1-2): 109-134.
Schmiedeknecht, O. 1924 A short summary of the section Tryphonides Prosopl. [ichneumonidae.] Ent. Mon. Mag.: 45-48, 103-112.
Tolkanitz, V.I. 2007 Ichneumon flies of the genus Exochus Gravenhorst (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Metopiinae) of the fauna of Palaearctic region Russian Entomol. J. Vol 16 (3): 339-358.
Varga, O. 2021 Types of the genus Exochus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Metopiinae) deposited at the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Zootaxa Vil 4985 (2): 173-193.

Exochus (a genus of metopiine ichneumon wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Exochus (a genus of metopiine ichneumon wasps)
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