''Linycus'' is a genus of parasitoid
wasps
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. Th ...
belonging to the family
Ichneumonidae
The Ichneumonidae, also known as ichneumon wasps, ichneumonid wasps, ichneumonids, or Darwin wasps, 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 ...
.
This parasitoid's hosts are typically
Geometridae
The geometer moths are moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyleti ...
.
The species of this genus are found in Europe, North America,
and Japan.
Species:
* ''
Linycus algericus''
(Habermehl, 1917)
* ''
Linycus annulicornis''
(Cameron, 1904)
* ''
Linycus exhortator''
(Fabricius, 1787)
* ''
Linycus kyoheii''
Kikuchi & Konishi, 2021
References
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Ichneumonidae
Ichneumonidae genera
Taxa named by Peter Cameron