Diplazontinae is a subfamily of

Ichneumonidae The Ichneumonidae, also known as the ichneumon wasps, Darwin wasps, or ichneumonids, are a family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera. They are one of the most diverse groups within the Hymenoptera with roughly 25,000 species cur ...

. They are koinobiont endoparasitoids of Syrphidae. Oviposition is into the egg or

larva A larva (; plural larvae ) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle. ...

and emergence is from the

pupa A pupa ( la, pupa, "doll"; plural: ''pupae'') is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages. Insects that go through a pupal stage are holometabolous: they go through four distinct stages in thei ...

rium. Although they are distributed worldwide most species are in the

Holarctic The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical reg ...

region where there are 19 genera. Diplazontines have 3-toothed

mandibles In anatomy, the mandible, lower jaw or jawbone is the largest, strongest and lowest bone in the human facial skeleton. It forms the lower jaw and holds the lower teeth in place. The mandible sits beneath the maxilla. It is the only movable bone ...

and the first

abdominal The abdomen (colloquially called the belly, tummy, midriff, tucky or stomach) is the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates. The abdomen is the front part of the abdominal segment of the torso ...

tergite A ''tergum'' (Latin for "the back"; plural ''terga'', associated adjective tergal) is the dorsal ('upper') portion of an arthropod segment other than the head. The anterior edge is called the 'base' and posterior edge is called the 'apex' or 'mar ...

is box-like.

References

* Beirne, B.P., 1941 Beirne, B.P., 1941: British species of Diplazonini with a study of the genital and postgenital abdominal sclerites in the male (Ichneumon.) ''Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society London'' 91: 661-712. * Fitton, M.G., and G.E. Rotheray. 1982. A key to the European genera of diplazontine ichneumon‑flies (Ichneumonidae) with notes on the British Fauna. ''Systematic Entomo''logy 7:311‑320.

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