Banchinae

Banchinae is a subfamily of ichneumonid parasitoid wasps containing about 1,500 species; the genera Glypta and Lissonota are very large. The three tribes (Banchini, Glyptini and Atrophini) are all distributed worldwide.^[1][2]

Banchinae
Unidentified Lissonota species from entomart.be
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Ichneumonidae
Subfamily:	Banchinae
Tribes
Atrophini Banchini Glyptini

In older treatments, the Lycorininae, Neorhacodinae and Stilbopinae are often included in the Banchinae; newer works usually consider them separate families.^[3]

All banchines are koinobiont endoparasites of Lepidoptera. The Glyptini parasitise Tortricoidea. Atrophini parasitise a wider range of small moths. Species of Lissonota have long ovipositors able to reach deep wood-boring Lepidoptera such as Cossidae.^[4] Banchinae and Campopleginae are the only subfamilies of Ichneumonidae known to have polydnaviruses.^[5]

Most Banchinae have a stalked diamond-shaped areolet.^[6][7] A lobe of the propodeum projects over the middle coxae. The propodeum has few ridges (carinae), and the face is described as goat-like.

Atrophini: Diradops bethunei

Banchini: Banchus volutatorius

Glyptini: Glypta sp.

Genera

These 47 genera belong to the subfamily Banchinae:^[8][9][10]

• Agathilla Westwood, 1882 ^{c g b}
• Alloplasta Förster, 1869 ^{c g}
• Amphirhachis Townes, 1969 ^{c g}
• Apophua Morley, 1913 ^{c g}
• Arenetra Holmgren, 1859 ^{c g b}
• Atropha Kriechbaumer, 1894 ^{c g}
• Australoglypta Gauld, 1977 ^{c g}
• Banchopsis Rudow, 1886 ^{c g}
• Banchus Fabricius, 1798 ^{c g b}
• Brachychroa Townes & Townes, 1978 ^{c g}
• Catadacus Townes, 1969 ^{c g}
• Cecidopimpla Brèthes, 1920 ^{c g}
• Cephaloglypta Obrtel, 1956 ^{c g}
• Ceratogastra Ashmead, 1900 ^{c g b}
• Cryptopimpla Taschenberg, 1863 ^{c g b}
• Diradops Townes, 1946 ^{c g b}
• Eudeleboea Blanchard, 1936 ^g
• Exetastes Gravenhorst, 1829 ^{c g b}
• Geraldus Fitton, 1987 ^{c g}
• Glypta Gravenhorst, 1829 ^{c g b}
• Glyptopimpla Morley, 1913 ^{c g}
• Helotorus Townes, 1978 ^{c g}
• Himertosoma Schmiedeknecht, 1900 ^{c g}
• Isomeris Townes, 1969
• Leptobatopsis Ashmead, 1900 ^{c g}
• Levibasis Townes, 1969 ^{c g}
• Lissonota Gravenhorst, 1829 ^{c g b}
• Lissonotidea Hellen, 1949 ^{c g}
• Loxodocus Townes, 1969 ^{c g}
• Mnioes Townes, 1946 ^{c g}
• Neoexetastes Graf, 1984 ^{c g}
• Odinophora Förster, 1869 ^{c g}
• Philogalleria Cameron, 1912 ^{c g}
• Rynchobanchus Kriechbaumer, 1894 ^{c g}
• Sachtlebenia Townes, 1963 ^{c g}
• Sjostedtiella Szépligeti, 1908 ^{c g}
• Sphelodon Townes, 1966 ^{c g b}
• Spilopimpla Cameron, 1904 ^{c g}
• Stilbops Förster, 1869 ^{c g}
• Syzeuctus Förster, 1869 ^{c g}
• Teleutaea Förster, 1869 ^{c g}
• Tetractenion Seyrig, 1932 ^{c g}
• Tossinola Viktorov, 1958 ^{c g}
• Tossinolodes Aubert, 1984 ^{c g}
• Townesion Kasparyan, 1993 ^{c g}
• Zaglyptomorpha Viereck, 1913 ^{c g}
• Zygoglypta Momoi, 1965

Data sources: i = ITIS,^[11] c = Catalogue of Life,^[12] g = GBIF,^[13] b = Bugguide.net