Lycorina Holmgren

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

Lycorina Holmgren, 1859. Type species: Lycorina triangulifera Holmgren, 1859.

Lycorina fici Seyrig, 1932

Lycorina globiceps (Benoit, 1953)

Lycorina ranaivo Seyrig, 1934

Lycorina yui Rousse & van Noort, 2013

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Hosts: Cerambycidae, Choreutidae, Gelechiidae, Oecophoridae, Pyralidae, Tortricidae, Yponomeutidae.

References

Benoit, P.L.G. 1953. Notes Ichneumonologiques Africaines III. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 47: 145–152.

Holmgren, A.E. 1859. Conspectus generum Pimplariarum Sueciae. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 16: 121-132.

Rousse, P. & van Noort, S. 2013. Revision of the Afrotropical Lycorininae (Ichneumonidae; Hymenoptera) with description of a new species from South Africa. Zootaxa 3666 (2): 252–266. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3666.2.8

Rousse, P. & van Noort, S. 2014. Revision of the Afrotropical Lycorininae (Ichneumonidae; Hymenoptera) II. Three new species and additional distribution records. Zootaxa 3884 (3): 222–234. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3884.3.2

Seyrig, A. 1932. Les Ichneumonides de Madagascar. 1. Ichneumonidae Pimplinae. Mémoires de l’Académie Malgache 11: 1–183.

Seyrig, A. 1934. Les Ichneumonides de Madagascar. 2. Ichneumonidae Tryphoninae et supplément aux 1.Pimplinae. Mémoires de l’Académie Malgache 19: 1–111.

Credits

Photographs © Pascal Rousse (Iziko South African Museum).

Next genus: Artherola (Mesochorinae)

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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