family Ichneumonidae

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Related to family Ichneumonidae: ichneumon fly, Ichneumonoidea

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family Ichneumonidae - ichneumon flies

arthropod family - any of the arthropods

Hymenoptera, order Hymenoptera - an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc.

ichneumon fly - hymenopterous insect that resembles a wasp and whose larvae are parasitic on caterpillars and other insect larvae

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Only a few species of family Ichneumonidae can act as pollinators.

Species diversity and abundance of Hymenoptera; Ichneumonidae at selected forest in Langkawi Islands, Malaysia

Besides the Sathropterus, in the family Ichneumonidae the "braconid" type of fore wing venation is also present in the small Holarctic and Neotropical subfamily Neorhacodinae, small Holarctic subfamily Hybrizontinae (= Paxylommatinae), some genera of the Cryptinae (e.g.

Primer registro de Sathropterus pumilus (Holmgren) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tersilochinae) para Mexico

Family Ichneumonidae. In: Krombein, K., Hurd, P., Smith, D.

Comunidad de avispas Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) en el bosque nublado Monteseco, Cajamarca, Peru

The family Ichneumonidae contains many important ecto- or endoparasitoids of immature insects that undergo complete metamorphosis (holometabolous), such as Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera, and Trichoptera, as well as spiders (SOARES et al., 2006).

Functional and numerical responses and reproduction of Campoletis flavicincta parasitizing Spodoptera frugiperda caterpillars/Respostas funcional e numerica e reproducao de Campoletis flavicincta parasitando lagartas de Spodoptera frugiperda