Therion (wasp)

Therion
Therion morio
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Ichneumonidae
Tribe:	Gravenhorstiini
Genus:	Therion Curtis, 1829
Synonyms
Therium Agassiz, 1846 Exochilum Wesmael, 1849

Therion is a genus of ichneumon wasps in the family Ichneumonidae. There are at least 20 described species in Therion.

Species

• Therion brevicorne (Gravenhorst, 1829) ^{c g}
• Therion californicum (Cresson, 1879) ^{c g}
• Therion circumflexum (Linnaeus, 1758) ^{c g}
• Therion ericae (Bauer, 1967) ^{c g}
• Therion fuscipenne (Norton, 1863) ^{c g}
• Therion giganteum (Gravenhorst, 1829) ^{c g}
• Therion inusitatum (Brues, 1910) ^{c g}
• Therion magnum (Dasch, 1984) ^{c g}
• Therion minutum (Dasch, 1984) ^{c g}
• Therion morio (Fabricius, 1781) ^{c g b}
• Therion mussouriense (Cameron, 1897) ^{c g}
• Therion nigripes (Dreisbach, 1947) ^{c g}
• Therion nigrovarium (Brulle, 1846) ^{c g}
• Therion petiolatum (Davis, 1898) ^{c b}
• Therion ranti (Porter, 1999) ^{c g}
• Therion rufomaculatum (Uchida, 1928) ^{c g}
• Therion sassacus (Viereck, 1917) ^{c g}
• Therion tarsatum (Shestakov, 1923) ^{c g}
• Therion tenuipes (Norton, 1863) ^{c g}
• Therion texanum (Ashmead, 1890) ^c
• Therion unguiculum (Gauld, 1978) ^{c g}
• Therion wileyi (Porter, 1999) ^{c g}
• †Therion brachypodicum Zhang, Sun & Zhang, 1994 ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
• Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd Jr., Paul D. Jr.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B.D., eds. (1979). "Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico". Smithsonian Institution Press. Retrieved 2018-04-11.

External links

• Media related to Therion (Ichneumonidae) at Wikimedia Commons