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Belesica Waterston,
1929 |
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Cremastus Gravenhorst,
1829
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Eucremastus Szépligeti,
1905 |
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Eurygenys Townes,
1971 |
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Fafana
Rousse, Villemant & Seyrig, 2012 |
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Noxocremastus Townes,
1971
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Pimplomorpha Cameron,
1906 |
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Pristomerus Curtis,
1836 |
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Ricrena Cameron,
1906 |
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Temelucha Förster,
1869 |
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Trathala Cameron,
1899 |
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Distribution |
Worldwide. |
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Biology |
Endoparasitoids (Koinobiont) of
butterfly and moth (Lepidoptera) and sometimes beetle (Coleoptera) larva living
in concealed situations such as tunnels, buds, galls or leaf
rolls.
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Diagnosis |
Clypeus separated from face by a groove. Ventro-posterior corner
of propleuron with a strongly produced lobe touching or overlapping pronotum.
Meso- and metatibial spurs separated from tarsomere 1 by a sclerotized bridge.
Metasomal tergite I with spiracle near apex. Metasoma strongly compressed
laterally. Ovipositor always longer than apical height of metasoma, with dorsal
subapical notch. Face usually pale. |
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Diversity |
800 species in 35 genera. |
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References |
Förster,
A. 1869. Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen
des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 25:
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.
Rousse, P.,
Villemant, C. & Seyrig, A. 2011.
Ichneumonid wasps from Madagascar. 5. Ichneumonidae Cremastinae.
Zootaxa, 3118, 1-30.
Rousse, P. & Villemant, C. 2012.
Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local
Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species.
Zootaxa 3278: 1–57.
Yu D.S., van Achterberg, K.,
Horstmann, K. 2011.
World Ichneumonoidea 2011.
Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Available from
Vancouver, Canada: Taxapad.
www.taxapad.com
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Credits
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Photographs
© Simon van Noort or Aisha Mayekiso (Iziko Museums) or by
Agničle Touret-Alby © MNHN
(specimens database
http://coldb.mnhn.fr). |
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Acaenitinae;
Anomaloninae;
Banchinae;
Brachycyrtinae;
Brachyscleromatinae;
Campopleginae;
Cremastinae;
Cryptinae;
Ctenopelmatinae; Diplazontinae;
Eucerotinae;
Ichneumoninae;
Lycorininae;
Mesochorinae;
Metopiinae;
Ophioninae;
Orthocentrinae;
Pimplinae;
Rhyssinae;
Tersilochinae;
Tryphoninae;
Xoridinae
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