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Genus Anomalon

Ichneumon?  Braconid? - Anomalon - female Ichneumonid wasp on leaf - Anomalon - female Ichneumon - Anomalon Ichneumon wasp - Anomalon Ichneumon wasp - Anomalon - female brown ichneumon wasp with very narrow abdomen - Anomalon picticorne - female Pennsylvania Wasp for ID - Anomalon picticorne Small Wasp - Anomalon
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 Anomaloninae
Tribe Anomalonini
Genus Anomalon
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Neogreeneia Viereck 1912 (variably represented by different authors as a synonym or as a separate genus)
Explanation of Names
Anomalon Panzer, 1804
from the Latin anōmalon (neut. case), derived from the Greek ἀνώμᾰλος‎ ('uneven, irregular, anomalous')
Numbers
15 or 16 spp. north of Mexico,(1) 6 of which were reported by Carlson; a very large genus worldwide(2)
Anomalon
1. Anomalon arcuatum Dasch, 1984
2. Anomalon arizonicum Dasch, 1984
3. Anomalon canadense (Cresson, 1879)
4. Anomalon constrictum Dasch, 1984
5. Anomalon curvatum Dasch, 1984
6. Anomalon ejuncidum Say, 1836 (=A. fuscatum, A. texanum(1))
7. Anomalon exrufum Walkley, 1958
8. Anomalon floridanum Dasch, 1984
9. Anomalon glabrumm Dasch, 1984
10. Anomalon laterale Brulle, 1846
11. Anomalon montanum Dasch, 1984
12. Anomalon nigritum Norton, 1863
13. Anomalon ocellatum Dasch, 1984
14. Anomalon reticulatum Cresson, 1865
15. Anomalon vivum Cresson, 1879

Neogreeneia(2)
1. Anomalon picticorne (Viereck, 1912) (=Neogreeneia picticornis)
Identification
"Anomalon is easily distinguished from the other Anomalonine by the combination of the following characters: frons with a median vertical ridge; mid tibia with a single long, strong apical spur; forewing with 2 + 3 rs‐m joining M distal to 2 m‐cu, hindwing with distal abscissa of Cu1 entirely absent." - Jong‐Wook Lee et al. (2007).


Wing venation
Range
Worldwide(2)
Food
hosts are soil-dwelling larvae of Coleoptera, but an undescribed species from MD has been reared from an undescribed species of Exartema (Lepidoptera: Olethreutidae)(2)
Print References
Lee J.W., Choi W.Y., Yun M.K. (2007) Taxonomic review of the genus Anomalon Panzer (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Anomaloninae) in Korea, with two new species. Ent. Res. 37: 39-45.
Works Cited
1.Nomina Insecta Nearctica
Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.
2.Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog