Ichneumoninae

Ichneumoninae
Coelichmeumon haemmorhoidalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Apocrita
Superfamily:	Ichneumonoidea
Family:	Ichneumonidae
Subfamily:	Ichneumoninae Latreille , 1802
Tribe:	Alomyini Callajoppini Ctenocalini Eurylabini Goedartiini Heresiarchini Ichneumonini Joppocryptini Listrodromini Oedicephalini Platylabini Zimmerini

Ichneumoninae is a worldwide subfamily of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae.

Ichneumoninae are koinobiont or idiobiont endoparasitoids of Lepidoptera.This is the second largest subfamily of Ichneumonidae with 373 genera. Ichneumonines are often large, conspicuous colourful insects.They have a 5-sided areolet,a dorso-ventrally flattened abdomen, a long sternaulus and the clypeus is truncate exposing the labium.

Selected genera

• Alomya Panzer, 1806
• Amblyjoppa Cameron, 1902
• Amblyteles Wesmael, 1844
  • Amblyteles armatorius (Foerster, 1771)
• Anisobas Wesmael, 1844
• Anisopygus Kriechbaumer, 1888
• Aoplus Tischbein, 1874
• Apaeleticus Wesmael, 1844
• Barichneumon Thomson, 1893
• Cratichneumon Thomson, 1893
• Eurylabus Wesmael, 1844
• Goedartia Boie, 1841
• Heresiarches Wesmael, 1859
• Hoplismenus Gravenhorst, 1829
• Ichneumon Linnaeus, 1758
• Lymantrichneumon Heinrich, 1968
  • Lymantrichneumon disparis Poda 1761^[1]
• Phaeogenes Wesmael, 1844
• Platylabus Wesmael, 1844
• Pseudoplatylabus Smits van Burgst, 1920
• Trogus Panzer, 1806

References

Further reading

• Rasnitsyn, A.P. & U.V. Siitan. 1981. Ichneumoninae. In: D.R. Kasparyan (ed.), A guide to the identification of insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. 3. Hymenoptera . Moscow: Nauka Press.(in Russian)

External links

• Media related to Ichneumoninae at Wikimedia Commons
• Biolib
• Diagnostic characters
• Waspweb