Banchinae

Banchinae
Unidentified Lissonota species
from entomart.be
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea
Family: Ichneumonidae
Subfamily: Banchinae
Tribes

Atrophini
Banchini
Glyptini
Lissonotini

Banchinae are a subfamily of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae with about 1,500 species; the genera Glypta and Lissonota are very large. The tribes Banchini, Glyptini and Lissonotini are distributed worldwide.[1]

In older treatments, the Lycorininae, Neorhacodinae and Stilbopinae are often included in the Banchinae; newer works usually consider them separate families.[2]

All Bachinae are koinobiont endoparasites of Lepidoptera. The Glyptini parasitise Tortricoidea. Atrophini parasitise a wider range of small moths. Species of Lissonota have long ovipositors able to reach deep wood-boring Lepidoptera such as Cossidae.[3]

Most Banchinae have a stalked diamond-shaped areolet. A lobe of the propodeum projects over the middle coxae.The propodeum has few ridges (carinae), and the face is described as goat-like.

Footnotes

  1. Townes & Townes (1978)
  2. Townes (1969, 1971), Townes & Townes (1978), Wahl (1999)
  3. Aubert (1978), Townes & Townes (1978)

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