Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Superfamily Ichneumonoidea - Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps


R. Kittel, S. Shaw, & M. Sharkey. Subfamily Cheloninae
An illustrated key including both Nearctic and Neotropical genera.

Node 2 contains the Adeliini (represented by Kittel et al. under Phanerotomini); nodes 4-9 the Phanerotomini; and nodes 10-11 the Chelonini.

Ichneumonids of North America
From the "About" page:

"Ichneumonids of North America is an online resource for ichneumonid biodiversity. Ichneumonids are a fascinating group of parasitoid wasps with over 25,000 described species and likely over 100,000 total species. In North America (north of Mexico), there are around 5,508 described species and probably several thousand undescribed species. Like many hyper-diverse groups, identification resources and other information about ichneumonids are severely lacking in relation to their diversity. Even identifying ichneumonids to a particular subfamily can be challenging, let alone to genus or species.

Broad G. (2011) Identification key to the subfamilies of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera)
[cite:369494]
A helpful illustrated key designed with the fauna of British Isles in mind but giving good idea of the features used to separate ichneumonoid families and most of the ichneumonid subfamilies in our area, too

Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog
[cite:359178]
A catalog of the ichneumon wasps north of Mexico (taxonomy, hosts, distribution, references); part of the Database of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico

Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae
David Wahl's catalog of generic and higher names within Ichneumonidae is updated based on new publications and is the classification used by BugGuide. Names from Townes' revisions should be checked against this list for current status.

2022 edit: Replaced dead link http://hymfiles.biosci.ohio-state.edu/catalogs/ichneumonids/.

Marsh, Paul M. Braconidae catalog (online 2009) — in Krombein et al. (1979) Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Part of the Database of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico, digitized from "The Red Book"(1). There are occasionally typos due to text recognition and authority mismatch errors due to these digitization typos, failure to recognize subspecies, or failure to recognize a species being mentioned within the body of an entry. It is useful as an easily-searchable document but does need to be double-checked for spelling.

A scan of the original print book is also available through the [url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4144148#page/163/mode/1up]Biodiversity Heritage L

Wharton R.A., Yoder M.J. Parasitoids of fruit-infesting Tephritidae
[cite:749348]

Ribes-Escolà A. (2007-2014) Himenòpters de Ponent
[cite:745081]
a wonderful resource cited on many BG pages over the years (somehow never made it into the ref section, though)

Start here