Lycorina

Taxobox
name = "Lycorina"


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

ordo = Hymenoptera
subordo = Apocrita
superfamilia = Ichneumonoidea
familia = Ichneumonidae
subfamilia = Lycorininae
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genus = "Lycorina"
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synonyms =Genus-level:
"Gonioglyphus"
"Toxophoroides"

Lycorininae is a monotypic subfamily of ichneumon wasps. The mere thirty species or so comprise the single genus "Lycorina". In older sources, they may be included in the Banchinae [Townes (1969), Wahl (1999)] .

They are parasitoids of larval Lepidoptera in leaf rolls. Distribution is worldwide.Townes & Townes (1978)]

Footnotes

References

* (1969): Genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 3 (Lycorininae, Banchinae, Scolobatinae, Porizontinae). "Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute" 13: 1-307.
* (1978): Ichneumon-flies of America North of Mexico: 7. Subfamily Banchinae, tribes Lissonotini and Banchini. "Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute" 26: 1-614.
* (1999): [http://iris.biosci.ohio-state.edu/catalogs/ichneumonids/ Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera)] . Version of 19-JUL-1999. Retrieved 2008-JUN-18.