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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 » Oedemopsini

Tribe Oedemopsini

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Tiny Red Wasp - Zagryphus nasutus VERY TINY WASP - SPECIES? - Zagryphus nasutus - male Parasitic wasp 7/5/10 5PM - Hercus fontinalis Parasitic wasp 7/15/10 - Hercus fontinalis - female Wasp - Oedemopsis davisi - female Wasp - female Wasp - female wasp - Zagryphus nasutus - male
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 Oedemopsini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Some genera were previously in Eclytini of Townes.
Numbers
19 spp. in 6 genera in our area(1)(2); 14 genera worldwide(3); 11 genera worldwide(3)
1. Atopotrophos Cushman, 1940 (2 spp.)
2. Hercus Townes, 1969 (2 spp.)
3. Neliopisthus Thomson, 1883 (7 spp.)
4. Oedemopsis Tschek, 1868 (2 spp.)
5. Thymaris Förster, 1868 (5 spp.)
6. Zagryphus Cushman, 1919 (1 sp.)
Identification
partially weakly sclerotized first gonapophysis (ventral valve) of the ovipositor
Range
worldwide
Food
solitary koinobiont ectoparasitoid of Lepidoptera larvae
Print References
Bennett, A. M. (2006). A new genus of Oedemopsini (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tryphoninae) with a key to the genera of the tribe. The Canadian Entomologist, 138(4), 464-472.
Internet References
Ohio State University
Video of larvae to early adult.
Works Cited
1.Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae
2.Nomina Insecta Nearctica
Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.
3.Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog
Contributed by Bob Carlson on 16 July, 2010 - 10:11pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, PaleoJon, behmrachel, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 5 January, 2022 - 11:17pm

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