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Anomaloninae

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

Anomaloninae Förster 1869. Type species: Anomalon Viereck 1918.

Agrypon_leucostomum_LECTOTYPE

Agrypon Förster, 1860

Anomalon_punctatulum_PARATYPE

Anomalon Panzer, 1804

Barylypa_xanthomelas_HOLOTYPE

Barylypa Förster, 1869

Cechenodes_oweni_NON_TYPE

Cechenodes Townes, 1971

Encardia_picta_HOLOTYPE

Encardia Tosquinet, 1896

Parania_nototrachoides_LECTOTYPE

Parania Morley, 1913

Pseudanomalan_hugin_HOLOTYPE

Pseudanomalon Szépligeti, 1905

 

Sphaeromanus Aubert, 1979

Trichomma_albicoxum_LECTOTYPE

Trichomma Wesmael, 1849

Vernamalon_spilopterum_LECTOTYPE

Vernamalon Gauld, 1976

Biology

Endoparasitoids (koinobiont) of butterfly and moth (Lepidoptera) and beetle (Coleoptera) larvae. Eggs are laid into the larva and adult wasp emerges from host pupa.

Distribution

Worldwide

References

Förster, A. 1869. Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 25: 135-221.

 

Viereck, H.L. 1918. A list of families and subfamilies of the Ichneumon-flies in the superfamily Ichneumonoidea. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 31:69-74. 

Acaenitinae; Anomaloninae; Banchinae; Brachycyrtinae; Campopleginae; Cremastinae; Cryptinae; Ctenopelmatinae;

Diplazontinae; Eucerotinae; Ichneumoninae; Lycorininae; Mesochorinae; Metopiinae; Ophioninae; Orthocentrinae;

Phrudinae; Pimplinae; Rhyssinae; Tersilochinae; Tryphoninae; Xoridinae

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