Banchinae

Banchinae
Unidentified Lissonota species
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Subfamily: Banchinae
Tribes
  • Atrophini
  • Banchini
  • Glyptini

Banchinae is a subfamily of ichneumonid parasitoid wasps containing about 1,500 species; the genera Glypta and Lissonota are very large. The three tribes (Banchini, Glyptini and Atrophini) are all distributed worldwide.[1][2]

In older treatments, the Lycorininae, Neorhacodinae and Stilbopinae are often included in the Banchinae; newer works usually consider them separate subfamilies.[3]

All banchines are koinobiont endoparasites of Lepidoptera. The Glyptini parasitise Tortricoidea. Atrophini parasitise a wider range of small moths. Species of Lissonota have long ovipositors able to reach deep wood-boring Lepidoptera such as Cossidae.[4] Banchinae and Campopleginae are the only subfamilies of Ichneumonidae known to have polydnaviruses.[5]

Most Banchinae have a stalked diamond-shaped areolet.[6][7] A lobe of the propodeum projects over the middle coxae. The propodeum has few ridges (carinae), and the face is described as goat-like.

Genera

These 42 genera belong to the subfamily Banchinae:[8]

  • Agathilla Westwood, 1882
  • Alloplasta Förster, 1869
  • Amphirhachis Townes, 1969
  • Apophua Morley, 1913
  • Arenetra Holmgren, 1859
  • Atropha Kriechbaumer, 1894
  • Australoglypta Gauld, 1977
  • Banchopsis Rudow, 1886
  • Banchus Fabricius, 1798
  • Cephaloglypta Obrtel, 1956
  • Ceratogastra Ashmead, 1900
  • Cryptopimpla Taschenberg, 1863
  • Deleboea Cameron, 1903
  • Diblastomorpha Förster, 1869
  • Diradops Townes, 1946
  • Exetastes Gravenhorst, 1829
  • Glypta Gravenhorst, 1829
  • Hadeleboea Ugalde & Gauld, 2002
  • Hadrostethus Townes, 1969
  • Hapsinotus Townes, 1970
  • Helotorus Townes, 1978
  • Himertosoma Schmiedeknecht, 1900
  • Hylesicida Ugalde & Gauld, 2002
  • Lampronota Curtis, 1832
  • Leptobatopsis Ashmead, 1900
  • Levibasis Townes, 1969
  • Lissonota Gravenhorst, 1829
  • Meniscomorpha Schmiedeknecht, 1907
  • Mnioes Townes, 1946
  • Occia Tosquinet, 1904
  • Odinophora Förster, 1869
  • Rhynchobanchus Kriechbaumer, 1894
  • Rynchobanchus Kriechbaumer, 1894
  • Shortia Gauld, 1984
  • Sjostedtiella Szépligeti, 1908
  • Sphelodon Townes, 1966
  • Spilopimpla Cameron, 1904
  • Syzeuctus Förster, 1869
  • Teleutaea Förster, 1869
  • Tetractenion Seyrig, 1932
  • Tossinola Viktorov, 1958
  • Zaglyptomorpha Viereck, 1913

References

  1. ^ Townes & Townes (1978)
  2. ^ Brock, J.P. (2017). "The Banchine Wasps (Ichneumonidae: Banchinae) of the British Isles". Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. 7 (4). Royal Entomological Society: 1–150. ISBN 9781910159019.
  3. ^ Townes (1969, 1971), Townes & Townes (1978), Wahl (1999)
  4. ^ Aubert (1978), Townes & Townes (1978)
  5. ^ Lapointe, Renée; Tanaka, Kohjiro; Barney, Walter E.; Whitfield, James B.; Banks, Jonathan C.; Béliveau, Catherine; Stoltz, Don; Webb, Bruce A.; Cusson, Michel (2007-06-15). "Genomic and Morphological Features of a Banchine Polydnavirus: Comparison with Bracoviruses and Ichnoviruses". Journal of Virology. 81 (12): 6491–6501. doi:10.1128/jvi.02702-06. ISSN 0022-538X. PMC 1900126. PMID 17428854.
  6. ^ "Ichneumonid diagnostics". www.cedarcreek.umn.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  7. ^ Böcher, Jens; Kristensen (†), N. P.; Pape, Thomas; Vilhelmsen, Lars (2015-05-26). The Greenland Entomofauna: An Identification Manual of Insects, Spiders and their Allies. BRILL. p. 230. ISBN 978-90-04-26105-1.
  8. ^ "Catalogue of Life, Banchinae Townes, 1951". Retrieved 2025-10-25.

Other sources

  • Aubert, J.F. (1978): Les Ichneumonides ouest-palearctiques et leurs hotes 2. Banchinae et Suppl. aux Pimplinae ["The Western Palearctic ichneumon wasps and their hosts. 2. Banchinae and supplement to the Pimplinae"]. Laboratoire d'Evolution des Etres Organises, Paris & EDIFAT-OPIDA, Echauffour. [in French]
  • Townes, H.K. (1969): Genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 3 (Lycorininae, Banchinae, Scolobatinae, Porizontinae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 13: 1-307.
  • Townes, H.K. (1971): Genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 4 (Cremastinae, Phrudinae, Tersilochinae, Ophioninae, Mesochorinae, Metopiinae, Anomalinae, Acaenitinae, Microleptinae, Orthopelmatinae, Collyriinae, Orthocentrinae, Diplazontinae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 17: 1-372.
  • Townes, H.K. & Townes, M. (1978): Ichneumon-flies of America North of Mexico: 7. Subfamily Banchinae, tribes Lissonotini and Banchini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 26: 1-614.
  • Wahl, David (1999): Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera). Version of 1999-JUL-19. Retrieved 2008-JUN-18.