Lycorininae

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Lycorininae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Subfamily: Lycorininae

Lycorininae is a small sub-family of Ichneumonidae with only thirty species in only one genus Lycorina.They are parasitoids of larval Lepidoptera in leaf rolls.Distribution is world wide.

[edit] References

  • Townes, H. & M. Townes. 1978. "Ichneumon-flies of America North of Mexico: 7. Subfamily Banchinae, tribes Lissonotini and Banchini". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 26: 1-614.