| 11. | "Cystomastacoides kiddo " is a typical ichneumon wasp which are infamous for their deadly reproductive habits.
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| 12. | However, the generic name was already preoccupied by an ichneumon wasp ( subfamily Gelinae ) with the same name.
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| 13. | A serious hazard of the spider's busy life is that it is hunted by an ichneumon, or parasitic wasp.
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| 14. | The ichneumon wasps are more familiar to non-entomologists, being larger and about three times as diverse as the braconids.
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| 15. | It competes for prey with the red fox, the Egyptian mongoose ( " Herpestes ichneumon " ) and the wildcat.
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| 16. | An example is the parasitic wasp " Ichneumon eumerus ", which parasitizes the butterfly " Phengaris rebeli ".
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| 17. | The name of the title is a reference to the ichneumon wasp, which lays the eggs of its young in other insects.
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| 18. | All Australian species are pollinated by the ichneumon wasp known as the orchid dupe wasp ( " Lissopimpla excelsa " ).
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| 19. | Although the colours that ichneumon wasps see are unknown, bees and wasps have similar perception with green, blue and ultraviolet wavelengths.
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| 20. | There are parasitoids in a wide variety of taxa, including ichneumons and many wasps are highly specialised for a parasitoidal way of life.
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