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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) » Poemeniinae

Subfamily Poemeniinae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Wasp - Neoxorides caryae - female Ichneumon - Poemenia - female whispy waspy - Podoschistus vittifrons - female Ichneumon Wasp - Podoschistus vittifrons - female Poemenia sp.? - Poemenia Ichneumon - Podoschistus vittifrons - female Neoxorides sp. - Neoxorides Neoxorides sp. - Neoxorides
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 Poemeniinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
The genus Pseudorhyssa was formerly placed in Poemeniinae but has since been re-classified as Pimplinae in the tribe Delomeristini by Klopfstein et al. (2019).
Numbers
8 spp. in 3 genera of a single tribe (Poemeniini) north of Mexico; ~77 species in 10 genera of 2 tribes worldwide (one monogeneric tribe, Rodrigamini, Neotropical)(1)(2)
Tribe Poemeniini
1. Neoxorides (3 spp.)
2. Podoschistus (1 sp.)
3. Poemenia (4 spp.)
Identification
slender elongate ichneumonids with long ovipositors, superficially resembling rhyssines and some pimplines(2)
Key to Nearctic genera
Range
transcontinental in our area; worldwide except Australian(1)
Food
Parasitoids of wood-boring insects(3)
Works Cited
1.Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae
2.Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog
3.Genera Ichneumonorum Nearcticae (2014)
Contributed by John F. Carr on 29 September, 2009 - 8:24pm
Additional contributions by v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 23 October, 2022 - 10:33pm

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