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Larval structures of oxytorines and their significance for the higher classification of some Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera)
Author(s) -
WAHL DAVID B.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
systematic entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1365-3113
pISSN - 0307-6970
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1986.tb00171.x
Subject(s) - biology , ichneumonidae , paraphyly , larva , subfamily , zoology , instar , sister group , hymenoptera , taxon , phylogenetic tree , genus , clade , ecology , parasitoid , biochemistry , gene
Abstract The phylogenetic relationships of the Acaenitinae, Oxy‐torinae, and some of their component taxa, especially Cylloceria and Microleptes , are considered in light of new data from larval morphology. The Acaenitinae and Oxytorinae are sister‐groups; the enigmatic oxytorine genus Microleptes is analysed with regard to its larval characters and is placed in to its own subfamily, the Microleptinae. The possibility that the Oxytorinae may be paraphyletic with respect to the Orthocentrinae is discussed. Re‐examination of original slide mounts of last‐instar larval remains has revealed errors in past studies; all previously published material, and several taxa whose larvae were hitherto unknown, are figured.