Rhyssinae

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Rhyssinae
Temporal range: 47–0  Ma
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Rhyssella nitida
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Subfamily: Rhyssinae
Morley, 1913

Rhyssinae is a subfamily of parasitoid wasps in the family Ichneumonidae. It contains eight genera and 259 described species, but there are likely many undiscovered species. [1] [2]

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Rhyssella humida

All possess long ovipositors, which are used by females to bore into tree trunks to lay eggs on the larvae of horntails and wood-boring beetles.

Females in genus Megarhyssa show very long ovipositors, with the one of M. atrata reaching 14 cm in length. [3]

Fossil record

The oldest reliable discovery of the subfamily in fossil form was made in a German Messel pit (Eocene, about 47 Ma). [4]

Genera

The following genera belong to the subfamily Rhyssinae:

Data sources: i = ITIS, [5] c = Catalogue of Life, [6] g = GBIF, [7] b = Bugguide.net [8]

References

  1. ↑ Kim, Ki-Beom; Kang, Gyu-Won; Lee, Jong-Wook (2018-03-01). "Taxonomic review of the subfamily Rhyssinae Morley (Hymenoptera:Ichneumonidae) with seven newly recorded species from South Korea". Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. 11 (1): 123–131. doi: 10.1016/j.japb.2017.11.005 . ISSN   2287-884X.
  2. ↑ Noort, Simon Van; Rousse, Pascal (2014-07-25). "A review of the Afrotropical Rhyssinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) with the descriptions of five new species". European Journal of Taxonomy (91). doi: 10.5852/ejt.2014.91 . ISSN   2118-9773.
  3. ↑ Le Lannic, Joseph; Nénon, J.-P. (1999-10-18). "Functional morphology of the ovipositor in Megarhyssa atrata (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) and its penetration into wood". Zoomorphology. 119 (2): 73–79. doi:10.1007/s004350050082. ISSN   0720-213X.
  4. ↑ Seraina Klopfstein; Sonja Wedmann; Tamara Spasojevic (2018-06-06). "Seven remarkable new fossil species of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Eocene Messel Pit". PLOS ONE. 13 (6): e0197477. Bibcode:2018PLoSO..1397477S. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197477 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   5991363 . PMID   29874268.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  5. ↑ "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System" . Retrieved 2018-04-07.
  6. ↑ "Catalogue of Life" . Retrieved 2018-04-07.
  7. ↑ "GBIF" . Retrieved 2018-04-07.
  8. ↑ "Rhyssinae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-07.

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