Anomaloninae

Anomaloninae
Erigorgus melanobatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Apocrita
Superfamily:	Ichneumonoidea
Family:	Ichneumonidae
Subfamily:	Anomaloninae Viereck, 1918

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

They are koinobiont endoparasitoids of Lepidoptera or Coleoptera. Anomaloninae have a slender abdomen and reticulated propodeum and are found in dry habitats. There are 2 tribes (Anomalonini, Gravenhorstiini) and 39 genera.

Ichneumon Wasp of the Subfamily Anomaloninae

Genera

• Agrypon
• Anomalon
• Aphanistes
• Atrometoides
• Atrometus
• Aubertiana
• Barylypa
• Bimentum
• Brachynervus
• Calcaneum
• Castrosion
• Cechenodes
• Clatha
• Clypeocampulum
• Corsoncus
• Encardia
• Gravenhorstia
• Habronyx
• Heteropelma
• Indagrypon
• Liopterna
• Metoa
• Neohabronyx
• Ophionellus
• Ophiopterus
• Parania
• Perisphincter
• Phaenolabrorychus
• Philodrymus
• Podogaster
• Porizonopteron
• Pseudagrypon
• Pseudanomalon
• Sphaeromanus
• Spolas
• Stangepelma
• Therion
• Trichomma
• Vernamalon

References

• Gauld, I.D. (1976): The classification of the Anomaloninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 33: 1-135.
• Townes, H.T. (1971): Genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 4 (Cremastinae, Phrudinae, Tersilochinae, Ophioninae, Mesochorinae, Metopiinae, Anomalinae (Anomaloninae), Acaenitinae, Microleptinae, Orthopelmatinae, Collyriinae, Orthocentrinae, Diplazontinae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 17: 1-372.

External links

• Bugguide
• Diagnostic characters
• Ponent Spanish text but useful images

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