Euceros

Euceros
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Subfamily: Eucerotinae
Genus: Euceros
Gravenhorst, 1829
Euceros albitarsus Curtis Illustration from British Entomology

Euceros is a cosmopolitan genus of ichneumon wasps in the family Ichneumonidae.

Taxonomy

The genus has previously been placed in Tryphoninae by Townes. It is sister to the genus Barronia.

Distribution

Euceros is primarily found in the Holarctic, plus one species each in Australia and Madagascar.

Select species

These 48 species belong to the genus Euceros:

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

References

  1. ↑ Carlson, Robert W. (1979). "Ichneumonidae". In Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd, Paul D. Jr.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B.D. (eds.). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Vol. 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 385–386. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  2. 1 2 3 "Synoptic Lists of World Genera and Family-group Names". American Entomological Institute. 2014. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  3. ↑ "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  4. ↑ "Browse Euceros". Catalogue of Life. Archived from the original on 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  5. ↑ "Euceros". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  6. ↑ "Euceros Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-05.

Further reading

  • Barron, J.R. 1976. Systematics of Nearctic Euceros (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Eucerotinae). Naturaliste Canadien 103:285‑375.
  • Barron, J.R. 1978. Systematics of the world Eucerotinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), Part 2. Non‑Nearctic species. Naturaliste Canadien l05: 327–24.