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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) » Anomaloninae » Gravenhorstiini

Tribe Gravenhorstiini

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

Ichneumon - Agrypon prismaticum - female

Reminds me of Carrot Wasp bur Orange - 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 Anomaloninae

Tribe Gravenhorstiini

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Gravenhorstini (alternative spelling)

Explanation of Names

Gravenhorstiini Enderlein, 1912

named after Johann Ludwig Christian Carl Gravenhorst, a prominent German entomologist and specialist in Ichneumonidae

Numbers

about 70 spp. in 16 genera in our area reported by Carlson(1); further revised by Dasch (1984)(2) to 185 spp. in the 16 genera reported in Nearctica(3)

1. Agrypon (40 spp.)

2. Aphanistes (25 spp.)

3. Barylypa (34 spp.)

4. Calcaneum (1 sp. + 1 undescribed)

5. Corsoncus (2 spp.)

6. Erigorgus (27 spp.)

7. Gravenhorstia (2 spp.)

8. Habronyx (14 spp.)

9. Heteropelma (1 sp,)

10. Liopterna (1 sp.)

11. Metoa (9 spp.)

12. Ophionellus (6 spp.)

13. Ophiopterus (1 sp.)

14. Parania (4 spp.)

15. Therion (12 spp.)

16. Trichomma (6 spp.)

Identification

Fore wing with areolet open or closed; if open, then remaining vein basal, opposite, or apical to vein 2m-cu by less than two-fifths length of remaining vein. Head in dorsal view with lateral ocellus separated from occipital carina by less than its largest diameter and occipital carina approximately level with ocellus (4).

Wing venation of Therion

Works Cited

1.	Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog

2.	Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 9. Subfamilies Theriinae and Anomaloninae Clement E. Dasch. 1984. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, no. 36: 1-610.

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

4.	Hymenoptera of the world: an identification guide to families Goulet H., Huber J., eds. 1993. Agriculture Canada Publication 1894/E. 668 pp.

Contributed by v belov on 15 March, 2017 - 12:56pm
Additional contributions by PaleoJon, Arturo Santos
Last updated 17 December, 2024 - 3:43am

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