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Distribution |
Worldwide. |
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Biology |
Koinobiont
hyperparasitoids of Ichneumonoidea or Tachinidae. |
Diversity
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880 species in
13 genera worldwide (Yu et al., 2011). |
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Diagnosis |
Clypeus usually not separated
from face. Fore wing with areolet large and diamond-shaped. Metasomal
tergite I slender, with glymma large and deep and with spiracles near or
at middle. Ovipositor needle-like without dorsal notch, male gonoforceps
extended into a highly characteristic long and narrow rod. |
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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. 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 (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or
by Agničle Touret-Alby © MNHN
(specimens database
http://coldb.mnhn.fr). |
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Acaenitinae;
Anomaloninae;
Banchinae;
Brachycyrtinae;
Sisyrostolinae;
Campopleginae;
Cremastinae;
Cryptinae;
Ctenopelmatinae;
Diplazontinae;
Eucerotinae;
Ichneumoninae;
Lycorininae;
Mesochorinae;
Metopiinae;
Ophioninae;
Orthocentrinae;
Pimplinae;
Rhyssinae;
Tersilochinae;
Tryphoninae;
Xoridinae
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