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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonidae) » Mesochorinae

Subfamily Mesochorinae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited
Ichneumon - Mesochorus uniformis - male Ichneumon - Astiphromma splenium - female Ichneumon wasp - Mesochorus - female wasp - Mesochorus - male ID Request - Which Parasitic Wasp? - Mesochorus - female Unk - Mesochorus Mesochorus 8/6/21 Hymenoptera
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps)
Family Ichneumonidae (Ichneumonid Wasps)
Subfamily Mesochorinae
Explanation of Names
Förster, 1869
Numbers
9 genera worldwide; ca. 130 spp. in 3 genera north of Mexico (incl. 105 spp. of Mesochorus)(1)(2)
800 described species wordwide(Yu et al., 2012)
Identification
Wahl (1993a) proposed the following synapomorphies for the subfamily:
glymmae long and deep, almost meeting in the middle of first tergite

male gonoforceps apically well-developed, resembling a long rod

female hypopygium large and triangular in lateral view (not projected beyond the apex of the metasoma)
ovipositor short and needle-like (1.0–2.0× as long as the length of the metasomal apex)
ovipositor sheath rigid.
Range
worldwide(1)
Print References
Araujo, R. O., Vivallo, F., & Santos, B. F. (2018). Ichneumonid wasps of the subfamily Mesochorinae: new replacement names, combinations and an updated key to the World genera (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Zootaxa, 4521(1), 052-060.
Works Cited
1.Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae
2.Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 29 May, 2008 - 3:35pm
Additional contributions by v belov, behmrachel
Last updated 5 November, 2019 - 7:39pm

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