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Rhyssinae
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Rhyssinae

Rhyssinae is a subfamily of parasitoid wasps in the family Ichneumonidae. It contains eight genera and 259 described species, but there are likely many undiscovered species.

All possess long ovipositors, which are used by females to bore into tree trunks to lay eggs on the larvae of horntails and wood-boring beetles.

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8 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first

Giant Ichneumonid Wasps

genusMegarhyssa

Rhyssa

genusRhyssa

Rhyssella

genusRhyssella

Epirhyssa

genusEpirhyssa

Triancyra

genusTriancyra

Myllenyxis

genusMyllenyxis

Lytarmes

genusLytarmes

Cyrtorhyssa

genusCyrtorhyssa

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47937.