Acaenitinae

Acaenitinae is a subfamily of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae. It is distributed on all continents except Antarctica, although only one specimen (from the genus Arotes has ever been discovered in South America.[1] Little is known of the Acaenitinae. The only reared species was a koinobiont endoparasitoid of a weevil. There are 24 genera. Hosts are believed to be Coleoptera larvae in wood. Female Acaenitinae have a large triangular projecting genital plate.

Acaenitinae
Coleocentrus excitator
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Subfamily: Acaenitinae
Förster, 1869

Genera

References
  1. Castillo, C., Sääksjärvi, I. E., Bennett, A. M., & Broad, G. R. (2011). First record of Acaenitinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from South America with description of a new species and a key to the world species of Arotes Gravenhorst. ZooKeys, (137), 77.
  2. Varga, A (2013). "A review of the subfamily Acaenitinae Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from Ukrainian Carpathians". Biodiversity Data Journal. 1 (1): e1008. doi:10.3897/BDJ.1.e1008. PMC 3964695. PMID 24723751.
  3. PHAM, NHI THI; ACHTERBERG, CEES VAN (14 April 2015). "A review of the genus Phalgea Cameron (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Acaenitinae) with description of a new species from Vietnam". Zootaxa. 3947 (1): 146. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3947.1.11.
  4. Ito, Masato; Maeto, Kaoru (5 October 2017). "Revision of the genus Spilopteron Townes, 1965 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Acaenitinae) from Japan". European Journal of Taxonomy (356). doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.356. Retrieved 19 September 2023.

Further reading
  • 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.


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