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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita) » Braconids and Ichneumons (Ichneumonoidea) » Ichneumon Wasps (Ichneumonidae) » Tersilochinae

Subfamily Tersilochinae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Braconid Wasp - female wasp - female Braconid wasp? - female wasp - female wasp - female Ichneumonidae - female Hymenoptera - Braconidae? wasp
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita))
Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconids and Ichneumons)
Family Ichneumonidae (Ichneumon Wasps)
Subfamily Tersilochinae
Explanation of Names
Author: Schmiedeknecht, 1910.
Numbers
19 genera worldwide, over 20 spp. in 9 genera north of Mexico(1)(2)
Range
Worldwide(1)
Food
internal larval parasites of Coleoptera (e.g., Tersilochus conotracheli parasitizes Conotrachelus weevils, incl. the plum curculio, but some have been reared from an eriocraniid moth and Allophroides spp. from xyelid sawflies(2)
Remarks
Used as biocontrol agents
Works Cited
1.Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae
2.Ichneumonidae Database, By R.W. Carlson
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 13 June, 2007 - 11:16am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 5 February, 2010 - 12:03am

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