Banchinae

Banchinae
Unidentified Lissonota species
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Subfamily: Banchinae
Tribes

Banchinae is a subfamily of ichneumonid parasitoid wasps containing about 1,500 species; the genera Glypta and Lissonota are very large. The three tribes (Banchini, Glyptini and Atrophini) are all distributed worldwide.

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

All banchines 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. Banchinae and Campopleginae are the only subfamilies of Ichneumonidae known to have polydnaviruses.

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.

Atrophini: Diradops bethunei
Banchini: Banchus volutatorius
Glyptini: Glypta sp.

Genera

These 42 genera belong to the subfamily Banchinae:

References

  1. ↑ Townes & Townes (1978)
  2. ↑ Brock, J.P. (2017). "The Banchine Wasps (Ichneumonidae: Banchinae) of the British Isles". Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. 7 (4). Royal Entomological Society: 1–150. ISBN 9781910159019.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  3. ↑ Townes (1969, 1971), Townes & Townes (1978), Wahl (1999)
  4. ↑ Aubert (1978), Townes & Townes (1978)
  5. ↑ Lapointe, Renée; Tanaka, Kohjiro; Barney, Walter E.; Whitfield, James B.; Banks, Jonathan C.; Béliveau, Catherine; Stoltz, Don; Webb, Bruce A.; Cusson, Michel (2007-06-15). "Genomic and Morphological Features of a Banchine Polydnavirus: Comparison with Bracoviruses and Ichnoviruses". Journal of Virology. 81 (12): 6491–6501. doi:10.1128/jvi.02702-06. ISSN 0022-538X. PMC 1900126. PMID 17428854.
  6. ↑ "Ichneumonid diagnostics". www.cedarcreek.umn.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  7. ↑ Böcher, Jens; Kristensen (†), N. P.; Pape, Thomas; Vilhelmsen, Lars (2015-05-26). The Greenland Entomofauna: An Identification Manual of Insects, Spiders and their Allies. BRILL. p. 230. ISBN 978-90-04-26105-1.
  8. ↑ "Catalogue of Life, Banchinae Townes, 1951". Retrieved 2025-10-25.

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