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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita) » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonidae) » Banchinae

Subfamily Banchinae

Classification · Numbers · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Ichneumon - Banchus inermis - female ichneu 2 - female Ichneumon Wasp - female Wasp (Seaside) - Lissonota - female Parasitoid wasp, from suspended cocoon - male ichneumon wasp Unknown Wasp - Banchus another long ovipositor with a wasp attached - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita))
Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps)
Family Ichneumonidae (Ichneumonid Wasps)
Subfamily Banchinae
Numbers
3 tribes, with ~1,500 spp. in >60 genera worldwide; ~600 spp. in 21 genera in our area(1)(2)(3)
Range
worldwide(1)
Food
endoparasitoids of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera larvae(4)
Remarks
Related to the Ophioninae, but mainly active during the day.
Females inject POLYDNAVIRUSES into the host during oviposition. Virus compromise the host immune system, protecting the parasitoid. [more]
Works Cited
1.Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae
2.Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog
3.Genera Ichneumonorum Nearcticae (2014)
4.van Noort S. (2004-2015) WaspWeb: Wasps, bees and ants of Africa and Madagascar
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 26 August, 2006 - 1:30pm
Additional contributions by josephfortier, Chuck Entz, Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 16 March, 2017 - 10:26am

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