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Orgilinae

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

 

 

Biology

Solitary enparasitoids (koinobiont) of Lepidoptera larvae.

Distribution

Worldwide

References

Van Achterberg (1987) partly revised the subfamily. 

Shenefelt, R.D. 1970a. Braconidae 2. Helconinae, Calyptinae, Mimagathidinae, Triaspinae. Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Pars 5:177-305.

Oatman et al. (1969) described the biology of Orgilus lepidus Muesebeck.

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