Helconinae
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| Helconinae | |
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| Wroughtonia ligator | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Braconidae |
| Subfamily: | Helconinae Forster, 1862 |
Helconinae is a subfamily of wasp in the family Braconidae.
Helconinae has historically been a large subfamily of 4 tribes comprising about 40 genera.[1] Following many changes to classification and included groups over the years, only one of these original tribes, Helconini, remains. Cenocoeliini was split into a new subfamily, Cenocoeliinae, by van Achterberg in 1984.[2] Then, the tribes Brachistini and Diospilini were split into another new subfamily, Brachistinae, by Sharanowski et al. in 2011.[3] The remaining Helconini comprise about 12 genera.[1] The Helconini subtribe Vervootihelconina was since elevated to tribal status as Vervootihelconini. The enigmatic Ussurohelconini, previously transferred to Cenocoeliinae, was again recovered as a tribe of Helconinae.[4][3]
