Lyciscidae
Family of wasps
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Lyciscidae is a family of chalcid wasps.[1] The genera comprising this family were previously placed in the Cleonyminae subfamily of a paraphyletic Pteromalidae.[2]
| Lyciscidae | |
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| Thaumasura sp. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Superfamily: | Chalcidoidea |
| Family: | Lyciscidae Bouček, 1958 |
| Subfamilies | |
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Lyciscinae | |
Description and biology
Many species have metallic green, blue and bronze colours, and stout hind legs and fore legs. The females of most species have a tapered abdomen and a long ovipositor suited to accessing hosts concealed in wood; they are often encountered on trunks or branches of trees. Many are parasitoids of wood-boring beetles of the families Buprestidae (jewel beetles), Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles), and Curculionidae (weevils). However, some Agamerion species are parasitoids of cockroach egg masses, Epistenia species parasitize twig-nesting aculate wasps and bees, and Marxiana grandiosa is a hyperparasite of braconid wasps (which are, in turn, parasitoids of wood-boring beetles).[3]
Subfamilies and genera
Source:[1]
Lyciscinae
- Agamerion
- Amazonisca
- Chadwickia
- Epistenia
- Eupelmophotismus
- Hadroepistenia
- Hedqvistia
- Lycisca
- Marxiana
- Mesamotura
- Neboissia
- Neoepistenia
- Nepistenia
- Paralycisca
- Parepistenia
- Proglochin
- Proshizonotus
- Protoepistenia
- Riekisura
- Romanisca
- Scaphepistenia
- Shedoepistenia
- Striatacanthus
- Thaumasura
- Urolycisca
- Westwoodiana
Solenurinae
- Grooca
- Solenura
Gallery
Agamerion sp., Australia.
Epistenia coeruleata, USA.
Eupelmophotismus sp., Australia.
Thaumasura sp., Australia.
Solenura ania, China.
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