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Subfamily Phygadeuontinae

Wingless Wasp - Gelis - female wingless Ichneumon - Gelis - female Wasp in a forest of arm hairs - female Tiny Wingless Wasp - Gelis - female Parasitica - female Small parasitica, Gelis sp.? - Gelis - female Another Parasitoid Wasp wingless? - Polyaulon canadensis - female Tribe Phygadeuontini - 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 Phygadeuontinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Formerly treated as tribe Phygadeuontini in subfamily Cryptinae; elevated to subfamily by Santos (2017)(1).
Identification
Separated from true Cryptinae in part by the outward-bowed vein 2m-cu with 2 bullae on the forewing.
Works Cited
1.Phylogeny and reclassification of Cryptini (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae)...
Santos BF. 2017. Systematic Entomology 42(4): 650–676.