Ichneumon (genus)

Ichneumon
	Ichneumon insidiosus – Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Apocrita
Superfamily:	Ichneumonoidea
Family:	Ichneumonidae
Subfamily:	Ichneumoninae
Genus:	Ichneumon; Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
	Colobacis Cameron, 1901; Coreojoppa Uchida, 1926; Euichneumon Berthoumieu, 1904; Matsumuraius Ashmead, 1906; Pterocormus Foerster, 1850; Tyanites Cameron, 1903; Vabsaris Cameron, 1903; Brachypterus Gravenhorst, 1829;

Ichneumon is a genus of parasitic wasps in the family Ichneumonidae.

Selected species

This genus include about 270 species:

Ichneumon eumerus
Ichneumon extensorius Linnaeus 1758
Ichneumon insidiosus Wesmael, 1844
Ichneumon nyassae Heinrich,1967
Ichneumon rubriornatus Cameron,1904
Ichneumon sarcitorius Linnaeus, 1758
Ichneumon tottor Thunberg,1822
Ichneumon unicinctus Brullé,1846

Cultural significance

In the eighteenth century Ichneumon was regarded as an instance of the God-given balance in nature; in the nineteenth the possibility of using it as a form of biocontrol was briefly entertained. It was used as the symbol of the reformed Entomological Society of London in 1833.^[1]

References

^ "The British Journal for the History of Science V48:4". Cambridge University Press.

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[1] "The British Journal for the History of Science V48:4". Cambridge University Press.

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