Ichneumoninae

Ichneumoninae
Coelichmeumon haemmorhoidalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Ichneumonidae
Subfamily:	Ichneumoninae Latreille , 1802
Tribes
Alomyini Callajoppini Ctenocalini Eurylabini Goedartiini Heresiarchini Ichneumonini Joppocryptini Listrodromini Oedicephalini Platylabini Zimmerini

Ichneumon laetus female

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

Ichneumoninae are koinobiont or idiobiont endoparasitoids of Lepidoptera. It 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 short of absent 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
• Phaeogenes Wesmael, 1844
• Platylabus Wesmael, 1844
• Pseudoplatylabus Smits van Burgst, 1920
• Trogus Panzer, 1806

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