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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) » Ctenopelmatinae

Subfamily Ctenopelmatinae

Classification · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Ichneumon - Perilissus Wasp from a shrub - Saotis - male Wasp IMG_4518 - Opheltes glaucopterus Red and black wasp with white and black legs Ichneumon Wasp - male insect Braconid (?) with orange-red markings on thorax - female Orange ichneumon - Alexeter canaliculatus
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 Ctenopelmatinae
Numbers
about 100 genera in 7 tribes, about 300 spp. in 50 genera of 6 tribes represented north of Mexico(1)(2)
Range
worldwide(1)
Remarks
The only missing tribe is Scolobatini (worldwide except Ethiopian; 9 genera, of which 2 Neotropical and 5 Australian; 2 spp. in 2 genera north of Mexico)(1)(2)
Works Cited
1.Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae
2.Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 28 September, 2009 - 2:17am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 11 November, 2010 - 10:08am

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