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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) » Tryphoninae » Tryphonini

Tribe Tryphonini

Classification · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited
Ichneumon - Tryphon seminiger - male Wasp Ichneumon - female Ichneumon Wasp - Tryphon seminiger - male Wasp - Tryphon seminiger looks similar to Scopesis - Cosmoconus ichneumon wasp female - Tryphon seminiger - female red and black ichneumon wasp - Tryphon seminiger - female
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 Tryphoninae
Tribe Tryphonini
Numbers
133 spp. in 11 genera north of Mexico(1)(2); 19 genera worldwide(3)
1. Boethus Förster, 1868 (9 spp.)
2. Cosmoconus Förster, 1868 (9 spp.)
3. Ctenochira Förster, 1855 (23 spp.)
4. Dyspetes Förster, 1868 (1 sp.)
5. Erromenus Holmgren, 1857 (25 spp.)
6. Grypocentrus Ruthe, 1855 (5 spp.)
7. Lagoleptus Townes, 1969 (1 sp.)
8. Monoblastus Hartig, 1837 (14 spp.)
9. Polyblastus Hartig, 1837 (29 spp.)
10. Thibetoides Davis, 1897 (1 sp.)
11. Tryphon Fallen, 1813 (16 spp.)
Range
worldwide except Australian; most of the genera are Holarctic(3)
Food
Nearly all members of this tribe are parasites of sawflies(1)
Works Cited
1.Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog
2.Nomina Insecta Nearctica
Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.
3.Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae
Contributed by Bob Carlson on 10 January, 2010 - 2:51pm
Additional contributions by v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 5 January, 2022 - 11:21pm

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