Lissonota Gravenhorst

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

Lissonota Gravenhorst, 1829. Type species: Ichneumon setosus Geoffrey 1785

For synonyms see Townes 1970 or Townes & Townes 1978 or Yu 1998

	Lissonota benoiti Townes, 1973
	Lissonota deverser Gravenhorst, 1829
	Lissonota goci (Reynolds Berry & van Noort, 2016)
	Lissonota halidayi Holmgren, 1860
	Lissonota pectinata (Benoit, 1955)
	Lissonota spilocephala Cameron, 1906

Distribution	Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa. Worldwide.
Biology	Endoparasitoid (koinobiont) of Lepidoptera larva in concealed situations.
References	Benoit, P.L.G. 1955. Contributions a l'étude des Ichneumonidae africains (Hymenoptera). I. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Sciences Zoologiques 38: 1-55. Gravenhorst, J.L.C. 1829. Ichneumonologia Europaea. Pars III. Vratislaviae. 1097 pp. Reynolds Berry T & van Noort S 2016. Review of Afrotropical Cryptopimpla Taschenberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae), with description of nine new species. ZooKeys 640: 103–137. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.640.10334 Reynolds T, van Noort S. 2023. Two new species of the genus Cryptopimpla Taschenberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae) with an updated key to African species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96: 667-696. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.96.104038 Townes, H.K. 1970. The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 3. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. No.13(1969). 307pp. Townes, H.K. and Townes, M. 1978. Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 7. Subfamily Banchinae, tribes Lissonotini and Banchini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. No.26. 614pp. Yu, D.S. 1998. Interactive Catalogue of World Ichneumonidae 1998. CD-ROM. Taxapad. Vancouver, Canada.
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Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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