Tryphoninae

Tryphoninae
Tryphon rutilator
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Subfamily: Tryphoninae
Shuckard, 1840

The Tryphoninae comprise a worldwide subfamily of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae.

Behavior

Most species of the Tryphoninae are koinobiont ectoparasitoids of Symphyta larvae, but members of some genera (e.g. Netelia) are ectoparasitoids of Lepidoptera larvae. Tryphonines have a hair-margined clypeus and two longitudinal parallel ridges occur on the first tergite. The female sometimes has stalked eggs projecting from her ovipositor.

Distribution

The family Tryphoninae is cosmopolitan with the greatest biodiversity in the Holarctic.

Tribes and genera

As of 2024, the following eight tribes are recognized. Fifty-five extant genera are described as well as at least 3 extinct genera.

Tribe Ankylophonini Gauld, 1984

Tribe Eclytini Townes & Townes, 1945

Tribe Exenterini Förster, 1869

Tribe Idiogrammatini Cushman, 1942

Tribe Oedemopsini Woldstedt, 1877

Tribe Phytodietini Hellén, 1915

Tribe Sphinctini Förster, 1869

Tribe Tryphonini Shuckard, 1840

References

  1. ↑ "Tryphoninae - WaspWeb". www.waspweb.org. Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  2. ↑ Eaton, Eric R. (24 January 2009). "Subfamily Tryphoninae". BugGuide. Archived from the original on 4 August 2025. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  3. 1 2 Watanabe, Kyohei (2020). "New distribution records of the subfamily Tryphoninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in Japan". Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology. 26 (2): 208–215. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
  4. ↑ "Tryphoninae". Hymenoptera Online (HOL). 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  5. 1 2 Kasparyan, Dmitriy R. (2024). "New Palaearctic Taxa of Ichneumonids (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae: Tryphoninae): Orthodolius gen. n., Praectenochira subgen. n., and Aderaeon Townes, 1949, stat. resurr". Entomological Review. 104: 63–71. doi:10.1134/S001387382401007X.

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