Subfamily Banchinae

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Food · Remarks · See Also · Internet References

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (parasitic Apocrita)

Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconids and Ichneumons)

Family Ichneumonidae (Ichneumon Wasps)

Subfamily Banchinae

Numbers

Approximately 1,500 species in the world.

Identification

Diamond-shaped areolet, a wide propodeum, terga with deep oblique grooves, and a long ovipositor with a subapical notch.

Orange and black color pattern, compressed abdomen, the propodeum extending over the mid-coxae.

Females with short, stout ovipositor, and a large, notched, and triangular hypopygium that doesn't extend beyond the apex of the abdomen.

(Comments by Ross Hill).

Food

Major caterpillar hunters.

Remarks

Related to the Ophioninae, but with mainly diurnal activity.

See Also

Often confused with Anomaloninae

Internet References

Wikipedia.

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 26 August, 2006 - 1:30pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 29 September, 2009 - 3:37pm

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