Phrudinae

Taxobox
name = Phrudinae


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

ordo = Hymenoptera
subordo = Apocrita
superfamilia = Ichneumonoidea
familia = Ichneumonidae
subfamilia = Phrudinae
subfamilia_authority = Ashmead,1900

Phrudinae is a worldwide subfamily of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae Phrudinae are not a natural clade.They are rarely collected and their biology is largely unknown. Two genera have been reared as endoparasitoids of Coleoptera larvae.There are 12 genera.

References

*Townes, H.T. (1971): Genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 4 (Cremastinae, Phrudinae, Tersilochinae, Ophioninae, Mesochorinae, Metopiinae, Anomalinae, Acaenitinae, Microleptinae, Orthopelmatinae, Collyriinae, Orthocentrinae, Diplazontinae). "Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute" 17: 1-372.