Tryphoninae

Taxobox
name = Tryphoninae


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta

ordo = Hymenoptera
subordo = Apocrita
superfamilia = Ichneumonoidea
familia = Ichneumonidae
subfamilia = Tryphoninae
subfamilia_authority = Shuckard, 1840

Tryphoninae is a worldwide subfamily of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae. Most species of Tryphoninae are koinobionts ectoparasitoids of Symphyta larvae, but members of some genera ( e.g." Netelia") are ectoparasitoids of Lepidoptera larvae.Tryphonines have a hair-margined clypeusand there are two longitudinal parallel ridges on the first tergite. Females sometimes have stalked eggs projecting from their ovipositor.

Most species are Holarctic. There are 51 genera.

References

*Townes, H.T. (1969) Genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 1 (Ephialtinae, Tryphoninae, Labiinae, Adelognathinae, Xoridinae, Agriotypinae). "Memoirs of the American Entomological Insti"tute 11: 1-300.

External Links

* [http://bitkikorumamuzesi.netfirms.com/ichneumonidae_anahtar.htm#Tryphoninae Diagnostic characters]
* [http://www.waspweb.org/Ichneumonoidea/Ichneumonidae/Tryphoninae/index.htm Waspweb]