METOPIINAE Förster, 1869
(metopiine ichneumon wasps)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Carria paradoxa a hymenopteran	Species			3 ident. refs
Chorinaeus a genus of hymenopterans	Genus	1 subtaxa	31 images	1 ident. refs
Colpotrochia cincta a hymenopteran	Species			1 ident. refs
Exochus a genus of metopiine ichneumon wasps	Genus	4 subtaxa	81 images	5 ident. refs
Hypsicera a genus of metopiine ichneumon wasps	Genus			1 ident. refs
Ischyrocnemis goesi an ichneumon wasp	Species			1 ident. refs
Metopius a genus of hymenopterans	Genus	1 subtaxa		2 ident. refs
Periope auscultator an ichneumon wasp	Species			1 ident. refs
Periope hoerhammeri a metopiine ichneumon	Species			1 ident. refs
Scolomus borealis a hymenopteran	Species			1 ident. refs
Stethoncus monopicida a metopiine ichneumon	Species			1 ident. refs
Synosis a genus of metopiine ichneumon wasps	Genus	1 subtaxa	6 images	1 ident. refs
Triclistus a genus of metopiine ichneumon wasps	Genus	1 subtaxa	21 images	4 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Subfamily	METOPIINAE (metopiine ichneumon wasps)
Family	ICHNEUMONIDAE (ichneumon wasps)
Superfamily	ICHNEUMONOIDEA (braconid and ichneumon parasitic wasps)
Suborder	APOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
Order	HYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

METOPIINAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Ceballos, G.	1963	Orthocentrinae y Metopiinae de España (Hym. Ichneumonidae)	EOS Vol 39 (1-2): 109-134.
	Hackston, M.	2023	Family Ichneumonidae, subfamily Metopiinae key to British genera	https://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeyshymenoptera/
	Meyer, N.F.	1936	Tryphoninae	Tables systématiques des Hyménoptères parasites (Fam. Ichneumonidae) de l’URSS et des pays limitrophes Vol 6.
	Townes, H.K.	1971	The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 4	Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst. Vol 17: 1-372.
Regional/Nearctic
	Townes, H. & M.	1959	1. Subfamily Metopiinae	Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico, 326pp, Smithsonian Institution

METOPIINAE (metopiine ichneumon wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

ICHNEUMONIDAE
(ichneumon wasps)

ICHNEUMONOIDEA
(braconid and ichneumon parasitic wasps)

APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for METOPIINAE (metopiine ichneumon wasps)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for METOPIINAE (metopiine ichneumon wasps)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

METOPIINAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

Regional/Nearctic

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