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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) » Ichneumoninae » Ichneumonini » Melanichneumon

Genus Melanichneumon

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Ichneumon - Melanichneumon disparilis - male

Ichneumon Wasp - Melanichneumon - female

Cratichneumon - Melanichneumon indecoroatus

Orthogonalys pulchella? - Melanichneumon

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 Ichneumoninae

Tribe Ichneumonini

Genus Melanichneumon

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

formerly included Barichneumon as a subgenus(1)

Explanation of Names

Melanichneumon Thomson, 1893

Numbers

18-19 spp. in our area:(2)(3)

1. Melanichneumon absconditus (Provancher, 1886)

2. Melanichneumon complicatus Heinrich, 1977

3. M Melanichneumon disparilis (Cresson, 1867)

4. Melanichneumon dreisbachi Heinrich, 1962

5. Melanichneumon flavicarina Heinrich, 1962

6. Melanichneumon foxleei Heinrich, 1962

7. Melanichneumon heiligbrodtii (Cresson, 1877)

8. Melanichneumon honestus (Cresson, 1867)

9. Melanichneumon indecoratus Heinrich, 1962

10. Melanichneumon leviculops Heinrich, 1962

11. Melanichneumon leviculus (Cresson, 1877)

12. Melanichneumon lissorufus Heinrich, 1962

13. Melanichneumon margaritae Heinrich, 1973

14. Melanichneumon mystificans Heinrich, 1972

15. Melanichneumon neoleviculops Heinrich, 1971

16. Melanichneumon pluto (Viereck 1903)

17. Melanichneumon townesi Heinrich, 1962

18. Melanichneumon xanthogrammus (Ashmead, 1890)

?. M. texanus (Cresson, 1877)(4)

Identification

The North American forms combine an unusually high degree of individual and geographical variability in color, with great structural monotony, and hence constitute, next to the western Amblytelina, the most difficult group taxonomically among the Ichneumoninae of North America. (2)

Range

Holarctic, e. US

Works Cited

1.	Ichneumon

2.	Ichneumoninae of Florida and Neighboring States (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, subfamily Ichneumoninae) Heinrich, G.H. 1977. Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas, Volume 9.

3.	Nomina Insecta Nearctica Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.

4.	Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog

Contributed by Bob Carlson on 14 December, 2009 - 2:06pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, PaleoJon
Last updated 3 January, 2022 - 11:59pm

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