Lycorina

Lycorina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea
Family: Ichneumonidae
Subfamily: Lycorininae
Genus: Lycorina
Synonyms

Genus-level:
Gonioglyphus
Toxophoroides

Lycorininae is a monotypic subfamily of ichneumon wasps. The mere thirty species or so comprise the single genus Lycorina[1]. In older sources, they may be included in the Banchinae[2].

They are parasitoids of larval Lepidoptera in leaf rolls. Distribution is worldwide.[1]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Townes & Townes (1978)
  2. ^ Townes (1969), Wahl (1999)

References