Genus Vipio

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References

Braconid or Ichneumon Wasp (?) - Vipio - 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 Braconidae (Braconid Wasps)

Subfamily Braconinae

Genus Vipio

Explanation of Names

Vipio Latrielle, 1804

Identification

Vipio can be distinguished from other braconines by the combination of:

shape of the terminal flagellomere, which is not acuminate and not, or only marginally, compressed

fore wing marginal cell short

clypeal guard setae usually formed into a pair of paintbrush-like clusters, or a dominated by a single very large seta on either side

labio-maxillary complex moderately to very elongate

second metasomal tergite with a posteriorly-narrowing, mid-basal triangular area

Food

The principal recorded hosts are in the Coleoptera, including Curculionidae, Buprestidae, Cerambycidae, Scolytidae, and Lymexylidae (Shenefelt, 1978).

A few species also apparently use hosts in the Lepidoptera, including Noctuidae and Pyralidae, and more rarely Hymenoptera (Siricidae).

Host records are available for only a few of the North American species.

Life Cycle

idiobiont ectoparasitoids of endophytic coleopterous, lepidopterous, and hymenopterous larvae

Remarks

Vipio Latreille are frequently collected and are relatively common in North America

Print References

Inayatullah, M., Shaw, S. R., & Quicke, D. L. J. (1998). The genus Vipio Latreille (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of America north of Mexico. Journal of natural history, 32(1), 117-148.

Contributed by v belov on 18 December, 2009 - 9:33pm
Additional contributions by behmrachel
Last updated 5 November, 2019 - 11:50am

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