An ichneumon wasp female Clistopyga incitator [1] inspects drillholes on the bee hotel. This common species in the Netherlands can be frequently seen on the bee hotels searching for potential hosts.


The species in the genus are parasites on moths (Lepidoptera), beetles (Coleoptera) and spiders (Araneae) [2,3]. The following species and groups occurring in the Netherlands [1] are mentioned in literature::
Araneidae [2,3] (Kruisspinachtigen) | Segestriidae Segestria – Segestria senoculata [3] Zygiella – Zygiella x-notata [6] |
Coleoptera [2,3] (Kevers) | Anobiidae (Wood-borer beetles) Ptilinus – Ptilinus pectinicornis [3] Bostrichidae (Auger beetles) Lyctus – Lyctus pubescens [3] |
Lepidoptera [2,3] (Vlinders) | Tortricidae (Leafrollers) Cydia – Cydia cosmophonora [3] Rhyacionia – Rhyacionia buoliana [3] Yponomeutidae Yponomeuta – Yponomeuta malinellus (Apple ermine) [3] – Yponomeuta rorrella [3] |
Literature
1 Nederlands Soortenregister2 Song, G.-M., Choi, J.-K., & Lee, J.-W. (2018). Review of the Genera Clistopyga and Endromopoda (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from South Korea. Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity, 34(2), 69–78. https://doi.org/10.5635/ASED.2018.34.2.048
3 van Noort, S. 2022. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the Afrotropical region. URL: www.waspweb.org