Adelognathinae is a subfamily of the parasitoid wasp

family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...

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 cu ...

. Adelognathinae are

idiobiont In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionary strategies within parasiti ...

ectoparasitoids of

Symphyta Sawflies are the insects of the suborder Symphyta within the order Hymenoptera, alongside ants, bees, and wasps. The common name comes from the saw-like appearance of the ovipositor, which the females use to cut into the plants where they l ...

larvae. Distribution is

Holarctic The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical regi ...

. This subfamily contains only one genus: the

type genus In biological taxonomy, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name. Zoological nomenclature According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearing type of a nomina ...

''Adelognathus''.

Footnotes

References

*Kasparyan, D.R. 1990. ''Ichneumonidae. Subfamily Tryphoninae: Tribe Exenterini. Subfamily Adelognathinae'' (in Russian). ''Fauna of the USSR, Insecta Hymenoptera'' 3(2): 1–340. *Townes, H.K. (1944)
A catalogue and reclassification of the Nearctic Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera). Part I.
''Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute'' 11:1-477.

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