Biology:Trachypetidae

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Short description: Family of wasps

Trachypetidae
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea
Family: Trachypetidae
Schulz, 1911
Genera
  • Cercobarcon Tobias, 1979
  • Megalohelcon Turner, 1918
  • Trachypetus Guérin-Méneville, 1830
Synonyms

Trachypetinae

The family Trachypetidae was erected in 2020 for three rare Australian genera of large parasitoid wasps formerly included in the family Braconidae, and now considered to be sister taxon to braconids.[1]

References

  1. Quicke, Donald L. J.; Austin, Andrew D.; Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P.; Hebert, Paul D. N.; Butcher, Buntika A. (2020). "Recognition of the Trachypetidae stat.n. as a new extant family of Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), based on molecular and morphological evidence". Systematic Entomology. doi:10.1111/syen.12426. 

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