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Agathidinae

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Braconidae)

Agathidinae Nees 1814.

Classification    Identification keys

  Aerophilus Szépligeti,1902
  Agathis Latreille,1804
  Aneurobracon Brues,1930
  Bassus Fabricius,1804
  Braunsia Kriechbaumer,1894
  Coccygidium Saussure,1892
  Cremnops Förster,1862
  Disophrys Förster,1862
  Euagathis Szépligeti,1900
  Hyrtanommatium Enderlein,1920
  Isoptronotum Enderlein,1920
  Macroagathis Szépligeti,1908
  Megalagathis Schulz,1906
  Mesoagathis Cameron,1905
  Orgiloneura Ashmead,1900
  Protroticus van Achterberg,1988
  Pseudocremnops Szépligeti,1915
  Troticus Brullé,1846
Biology Solitary endoparasitoids (Koinobiont) of Lepidoptera larvae.
Distribution Worldwide

References

Sheneflt, R.D. 1907b. Braconidae 3. Agathidinae. Hymenopterum Catalogus Pars 6:306-428.

Nixon, G.E.J. 1986. A revision of the European Agathidinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 52: 183-242.

Sharkey, M.J. 1992 Cladistics and tribal classification of the Agathidinae (Hymenoptera). Canadian Entomologist 118: 283-286.

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