DIPLAZONTINAE Viereck, 1918
(diplazontine ichneumon wasps)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
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ID refs
Bioblapsis cultiformis
a diplazontine ichneumon
Species 1 ident. refs
Diplazon
a genus of diplazontine ichneumon wasps
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 		Genus 3 subtaxa 65 images
Enizemum
a genus of hymenopterans
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 		Genus 1 subtaxa 27 images
Homotropus
a genus of diplazontine ichneumons
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 		Genus 4 subtaxa 146 images
Phthorima
a genus of diplazontine ichneumon wasps
Genus 1 ident. refs
Promethes sulcator
a diplazontine ichneumon
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 		Species 53 images
Sussaba
a genus of diplazontine ichneumon wasps
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 		Genus 3 subtaxa 108 images
Syrphoctonus
a genus of diplazontine ichneumon wasps
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 		Genus 1 subtaxa 60 images
Syrphophilus bizonarius
a diplazontine ichneumon
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 		Species 52 images
Syrphophilus tricinctorius
a diplazontine ichneumon
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 		Species 18 images
Tymmophorus
a genus of hymenopterans
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 		Genus 1 subtaxa 21 images
Woldstedtius
a genus of diplazontine ichneumon wasps
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 		Genus 2 subtaxa 39 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SubfamilyDIPLAZONTINAE (diplazontine ichneumon wasps)
FamilyICHNEUMONIDAE (ichneumon wasps)
SuperfamilyICHNEUMONOIDEA (braconid and ichneumon parasitic wasps)
SuborderAPOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Ashkan Masnadi-Yazdinejad, A. & Jussila, R. 2008 Contribution to the knowledge of ichneumonid wasps of Iran. Subfamilies Ichneumoninae, Pimplinae and Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) Entomofauna: zeitschrift für entomologie Band 29: 1-28.
Beirne, B.P. 1941 British species of Diplazonini (Bassini auctt.) with a study of the genital and post genital abdominal sclerites in the male (Hym.: Ichneum) Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 91 Part 13: 661-712.
Fitton, M.G. & Rotheray, M.E. 1982 A key to the European genera of Diplazontine ichneumon-flies with notes on the British fauna Systematic Entomology 7: 311-320.
Klopfstein, S. 2014 Revision of the Western Palaearctic Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) Zootaxa Vol 3801 (1): 1-143.
Meyer, N.F. 1936 Tryphoninae Tables systématiques des Hyménoptères parasites (Fam. Ichneumonidae) de l’URSS et des pays limitrophes Vol 6.
Townes, H.K. 1971 *** The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 4 ***(Superseded) Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst. Vol 17: 1-372.

DIPLAZONTINAE (diplazontine ichneumon wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for DIPLAZONTINAE (diplazontine ichneumon wasps)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 37 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for DIPLAZONTINAE (diplazontine ichneumon wasps)
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