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Cremastinae

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

Cremastinae Förster 1869. Type genus: Cremastus Fitton & Gauld 1976.

Belesica_pictipennis_HOLOTYPE

Belesica Waterston, 1929

 

Cremastus Gravenhorst, 1829

 

Eucremastus Szépligeti, 1905

Eurygenys_lignatus_HOLOTYPE

Eurygenys Townes, 1971

 

Noxocremastus Townes, 1971

 

Pimplomorpha Cameron, 1906

Pristomerus_bullis_HOLOTYPE

Pristomerus Curtis, 1836

 

Ricrena Cameron, 1906

Temelucha_basiornata_HOLOTYPE

Temelucha Förster, 1869

Trathala_cypete_HOLOTYPE

Trathala Cameron, 1899

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Endoparasitoids (Koinobiont) of butterfly and moth (Lepidoptera) and sometimes beetle (Coleoptera) larva.

References

Förster, A. 1869. Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens. 25(1868):135-221.  

 

Fitton, M.G. and Gauld, I.D. 1976. The family-group names of the Ichneumonidae (excluding Ichneumoninae) (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology. 1:247-258.

Credits

 

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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