Labeninae
The Labeninae is a subfamily within the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae (aka Darwin wasps or Ichneumon wasps). There are 12 extant genera (listed below), grouped within four tribes, that exhibit a predominantly Gondwanan distribution - most genera and species are found in Australia and South America. A few species of ''Labena'' and ''Grotea'' are found in North America, with hypotheses suggesting that the group radiated on Gondwanaland prior to the separation of Australia but after the separation of Africa/India/Madagascar. Some species from the tribe Labenini have been reared from wood-boring beetles of the Coleopteran families Buprestidae, Cerambycidae, and Curculionidae. Members of the tribe Orthognatheliini (sometimes, incorrectly, called Groteini) parasitize solitary bees; ''Labium'' wasps are known to parasitise ground-nesting, solitary bees, while ''Grotea'' are known parasitoids of cavity-nesting, solitary bees. Species of '' Poecilocryptus'' are thought to be p ...
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Ichneumonidae
The Ichneumonidae, also known as the ichneumon wasps, Darwin wasps, or ichneumonids, are a family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera. They are one of the most diverse groups within the Hymenoptera with roughly 25,000 species currently described. However, this likely represents less than a quarter of their true richness as reliable estimates are lacking, along with much of the most basic knowledge about their ecology, distribution, and evolution.Quicke, D. L. J. (2015). The braconid and ichneumonid parasitoid wasps: biology, systematics, evolution and ecology. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Ichneumonid wasps, with very few exceptions, attack the immature stages of holometabolous insects and spiders, eventually killing their hosts. They thus fulfill an important role as regulators of insect populations, both in natural and semi-natural systems, making them promising agents for biological control. The distribution of the ichneumonids was traditionally consi ...
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Labium (wasp)
Labium is the Latin word for lip. In English, it may refer to: * Labia, a part of the female external genitalia * Labium (botany), a modified petal in certain monocot flowers, which attracts insects for pollination * Labium (arthropod mouthpart), a mouthpart of arthropods (the lower "lip") * Labium (wasp), a genus of wasps in the subfamily Labeninae of the family Ichneumonidae * Labium (wind instrument), a part of wind instruments such as the recorder, see fipple Labia is the plural of labium. It may refer to: * Labia (earwig), a genus of earwig Earwigs make up the insect order Dermaptera. With about 2,000 species in 12 families, they are one of the smaller insect orders. Earwigs have characteristic cerci, a pair of forcep-like pincers on their abdomen, and membranous wings fol ...s in the family Labiidae * Labia family, a noble family of Venice See also * Labial (other) * Labrum (other) {{disambig ...
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William Harris Ashmead
William Harris Ashmead was an American entomologist born on 19 September 1855 at Philadelphia. He died 17 October 1908 at Washington D.C. After his studies in Philadelphia, Ashmead worked for the publisher J. B. Lippincott & Co. Later, he settled in Florida where he formed his own publishing house devoted to agriculture. He also launched the '' Florida Dispatch'', an agricultural weekly magazine which included a headed section devoted to injurious insects. In 1879, he began writing papers for scientific publications and, in 1887, he became a field entomologist working for the Ministry for the Agriculture of Florida. The following year, he became entomologist at the Agricultural Research station of Lake City. In 1889, he worked again for the Ministry for Agriculture. The following year, and for two years, he traveled, in particular to Germany, to perfect his entomological knowledge. In 1895, he obtained the post of conservation assistant in the Department of Entomology of the ...
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Grotea (wasp)
''Grotea'' may refer to: * ''Grotea'' (wasp), a genus of wasps in the family Ichneumonidae * ''Grotea'', a genus of butterflies in the family Sesiidae; synonym of ''Podosesia'' * ''Grotea'', a genus of reptiles in the family Colubridae; synonym of ? * ''Grotea'', a genus of butterflies in the family Erebidae; synonym of '' Sebastia'' * ''Grotea'' (plant), see 2013 in paleobotany This list of 2013 in paleobotany records new fossil plant taxa that were binomial nomenclature, described during 2013, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleobotany that occurred in the year. Chlorophyta Moss, Bry ...