POEMENIINAE Narayanan & Lal, 1953
(poemeniinine ichneumon wasps)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
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Poemeniini
a tribe of Poemeniinine ichneumons
Female (Click to open)
 		Tribe 4 subtaxa 18 images 5 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SubfamilyPOEMENIINAE (poemeniinine ichneumon wasps)
FamilyICHNEUMONIDAE (ichneumon wasps)
SuperfamilyICHNEUMONOIDEA (braconid and ichneumon parasitic wasps)
SuborderAPOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Fitton, M.G., Shaw, M.R., & Gauld, I.D. 1988 *** Pimpline Ichneumon-flies. Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae (Pimplinae) ***(Superseded) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 7. Part 1, 110pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Shaw, M.R. 2006 Notes on British Pimplinae and Poemeniinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with additions to the British List. Br. J. Ent. Nat. Hist. Vol 19: 217-238.
Varga, O. 2015 A review of the subfamily Poemeniinae Narayanan & Lal, 1953 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from Carpathians Journal of Insect Biodiversity Vol 3 (7): 1-14.

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

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for POEMENIINAE (poemeniinine ichneumon wasps)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for POEMENIINAE (poemeniinine ichneumon wasps)
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