Diplazontinae

Diplazontinae is a subfamily of Ichneumonidae.

Diplazontinae
Diplazon cf laetatorius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Ichneumonidae
Subfamily:	Diplazontinae Viereck, 1918
Genera
Bioblapsis Campocraspedon Daschia Enizemum Episemura Homotropus Phthorima Promethes Sussaba Diplazon Syrphoctonus Syrphophilus Tymmophorus Woldstedtius Xestopelta many others

They are koinobiont endoparasitoids of Syrphidae. Oviposition is into the egg or larva and emergence is from the puparium. Although they are distributed worldwide most species are in the Holarctic region where there are 19 genera.

Diplazontines have 3-toothed mandibles and the first abdominal tergite is box-like.

Diplazon laetatorius

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 Entomology 7:311‑320.

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