Agriotypinae
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Agriotypinae is a Palaearctic subfamily of the parasitic wasp
family
Ichneumonidae
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There is only one genus
(Agriotypus).The known species are aquatic idiobiont ectoparasitoids of Trichoptera
pupae.
Agriotypus is uncertainly placed and ranked. It has been placed in Proctotrupoidea
and considered a family of Ichneumonoidea.
Parasitic wasp
The term parasitoid wasp refers to a large evolutionary grade of hymenopteran superfamilies, mainly in the Apocrita. They are primarily parasitoids of other animals, mostly other arthropods...
family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Ichneumonidae
Ichneumonidae
Ichneumonidae is a family within the insect order Hymenoptera. Insects in this family are commonly called ichneumon wasps. Less exact terms are ichneumon flies , or scorpion wasps due to the extreme lengthening and curving of the abdomen...
.
There is only one genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
(Agriotypus).The known species are aquatic idiobiont ectoparasitoids of Trichoptera
Trichoptera
The caddisflies are an order, Trichoptera, of insects with approximately 12,000 described species. Also called sedge-flies or rail-flies, they are small moth-like insects having two pairs of hairy membranous wings...
pupae.
Agriotypus is uncertainly placed and ranked. It has been placed in Proctotrupoidea
Proctotrupoidea
The Hymenopteran superfamily Proctotrupoidea is a somewhat confusing assemblage of taxa, with new families being added with surprising frequency, and very little to unify them all into a single natural group...
and considered a family of Ichneumonoidea.