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Agathidinae

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

Agathidinae Nees 1814.

Biology

Solitary endoparasitoids (Koinobiont) of Lepidoptera larvae.

Distribution

Worldwide

References

Sheneflt, R.D. 1907b. Broconidae 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.

Credit

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