Rhimphoctona Förster, 1869
(a genus of campoplegine ichneumons)

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Rhimphoctona melanura
a campoplegine ichneumon
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Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusRhimphoctona (a genus of campoplegine ichneumons)
SubfamilyCAMPOPLEGINAE (campoplegine 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
Horstmann, K. 1980 Revision der europäischen Arten der Gattung Rhimphoctona Förster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) Nachrichtenblatt der Bayerischen Entomologen Vol 29 (2): 17-24.
Varga, O. 2017 A review of the genus Rhimphoctona Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Campopleginae) from the Ukrainian Carpathians, with a key to European species Zootaxa Vol 4263 (2): 387-394.

Rhimphoctona (a genus of campoplegine ichneumons) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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