Labenopimplinae are an extinct subfamily of the

parasitic wasp Parasitoid wasps are a large group of hymenopteran superfamilies, with all but the wood wasps ( Orussoidea) being in the wasp-waisted Apocrita. As parasitoids, they lay their eggs on or in the bodies of other arthropods, sooner or later cau ...

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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 cu ...

. Labenopimplinae are known from the Cenomanian of the Russian Far East and

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.Kopylov, D.S., Brothers, D.J. & Rasnitsyn, A.P. 2010
Two new labenopimpline ichneumonids (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Africa.
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'' 51 (2): 423-430. The subfamily includes five

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial ...

with 13 species. The subfamily is highly polymorphic and combines features of the Labeninae and

Pimplinae Pimplinae are a worldwide subfamily of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae.Gavin Broad (1966Identification key to the subfamilies of Ichneumonidae/ref> Pimplinae are parasitoids of Endopterygota, often the pupae of Lepidoptera. Various sp ...

List of genera

*'' Armanopimpla'' *'' Labenopimpla'' *'' Micropimpla'' *'' Ramulimonstrum'' *'' Rugopimpla''

References

Ichneumonidae Fossil taxa described in 2010 Apocrita subfamilies {{Ichneumonidae-stub