Gelinae

Gelinae
Acroricnus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea
Family: Ichneumonidae
Subfamily: Gelinae (but see text)
Viereck, 1918
Tribes

Claseini
Cryptini
Hemigastrini
Phygadeuontini

Synonyms

Cryptinae
Hemitelinae
Phygadeuontinae
(but see text)

Gelinae is a subfamily of wasps in the family Ichneumonidae. The name is not universally accepted; it is also called Phygadeuontinae, Hemitelinae, and Cryptinae by various authorities.[1] Gelinae was the name used by H. T. Townes in 1969.[2]

Species are distributed worldwide. A 5-sided areolet, a short sternaulus, and a puffy face with a convex clypeus are diagnostic characters for most members of this large subfamily.[3] There are about 400 genera.[4]

Classification

Tribe Claseini

Tribe Cryptini

Tribe Hemigastrini

Tribe Phygadeuontini

References

  1. Fitton, M. G., & Gauld, I. D. (1978). Further notes on family‐group names of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology, 3(3), 245-247.
  2. Townes, H. T. (1969). Genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 2 (Gelinae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 12: 1-537.
  3. Cryptinae. WaspWeb. Iziko Museums.
  4. Broad, G., & Barthélémy, C. (2012). A new species of Hadrocryptus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae), with the first account of the biology for the genus. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 24, 47.
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