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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) » Hover Fly Parasitoid Wasps (Diplazontinae)

Subfamily Diplazontinae - Hover Fly Parasitoid Wasps

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Habitat · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Ichneumon - Diplazon deletus - female Ichneumonidae? Hover fly parasite - Diplazon laetatorius - female A delicate beauty - Ichneumonidae. ID if possible. - male wasp - male Hover fly parasite Wasp - Diplazon laetatorius - female Ichneumon Wasp Wasp on Rudbeckia maxima - Diplazon laetatorius - 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 Diplazontinae (Hover Fly Parasitoid Wasps)
Numbers
~104 spp. in 13 genera north of Mexico; 20 genera worldwide(1)(2)(3)
1. Bioblapsis (2 spp.)
2. Campocraspedon (2 spp.)
3. Diplazon (18 spp.)
4. Enizemum (8 spp.)
5. Homotropus (36? spp.) ! includes most of the former 40 spp. of Syrphoctonus
6. Phthorima (6 spp.)
7. Promethes (4 spp.)
8. Sussaba (10 spp.)
9. Syrphoctonus (at least 2 spp.) ! most of the former 40 were transferred to Homotropus
10. Syrphophilus (5 spp.)
11. Tymmophorus (6 spp.)
12. Woldstedtius (3 spp.)
13. Xestopelta (1 sp.)
Identification
With 3-toothed mandibles and a box-like first tergite.
Habitat
worldwide(1)
Remarks
Larval host: aphidophagous (aphid-eating) Syrphidae(3)
Internet References
Wikipedia
Himenopters de Ponent
Works Cited
1.Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae
2.Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog
3.Molecular and morphological phylogeny of Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae)
Klopfstein S, Quicke DLJ, Kropf X, Holger F. 2011. Zoologica Scripta 40: 379-402.
Contributed by tom murray on 12 April, 2008 - 7:51am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 21 May, 2024 - 8:43pm

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