Dusona

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Dusona
Dusona leptogaster
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Subfamily: Campopleginae
Tribe: Limneriini
Genus: Dusona
Cameron, 1901[1]

Dusona is a genus of parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Ichneumonidae.[2] It is the most species rich genus of the subfamily Campopleginae with 442 known species.[3]

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.[2]

Dusona is an easily recognized genus among other Campopleginae due to a number of clear diagnostic characteristics which include: elongated, oval or slit-shaped propodeal spiracles; a very strongly compressed metasoma; closed areolets and petiolar sutures that are often obliterated or positioned very low anteriorly. Additionally many species reach unusually large body sizes, some exceeding 20 mm (see Dusona falcator). The thorax and head of most species are uniformly black, with the abdomen varying between black, red, brown, orange and yellow, with the fist tergit and the outer most tergites most usually black.[3]

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