Rhyssinae
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| Rhyssinae Temporal range: Eocene - Present | |
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| Rhyssella nitida | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Ichneumonidae |
| Subfamily: | Rhyssinae Morley, 1913 |
Rhyssinae is a subfamily of parasitoid wasps in the family Ichneumonidae. It contains eight genera and 259 described species, but there are likely many undiscovered species.[1][2]
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All possess long ovipositors, which are used by females to bore into tree trunks to lay eggs on the larvae of horntails and wood-boring beetles.
Females in genus Megarhyssa show very long ovipositors, with the one of M. atrata reaching 14 cm in length.[3]
The oldest reliable discovery of the subfamily in fossil form was made in a German Messel pit (Eocene, about 47 Ma).[4]
Genera
The following genera belong to the subfamily Rhyssinae:
- Cyrtorhyssa Baltazar, 1961 i c g
- Epirhyssa Cresson, 1865 i c g b
- Lytarmes Cameron, 1899 i c g
- Megarhyssa Ashmead, 1900 i c g b
- Myllenyxis Baltazar, 1961 i c g
- Rhyssa Gravenhorst, 1829 i c g b
- Rhyssella Rohwer, 1920 i c g b
- Triancyra Baltazar, 1961 i c g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[5] c = Catalogue of Life,[6] g = GBIF,[7] b = Bugguide.net[8]
