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Subfamily Phygadeuontinae

Parasitic wasp with caterpillar mummy - 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.

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 4 March, 2020 - 5:21pm
Additional contributions by PaleoJon, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 27 November, 2021 - 10:45am

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