Definition of Ichneumonidae

1. Noun. Ichneumon flies.

Exact synonyms: Family Ichneumonidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Hymenoptera, Order Hymenoptera
Member holonyms: Ichneumon Fly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ichneumonidae

Icelander
Icelanders
Icelandic
Icelandic-speaking
Icelandic Sheepdog
Icelandic Sheepdogs
Icelandic Sign Language
Icelandic Spitz
Icelandic Spitze
Icelandic krona
Icelandic monetary unit
Icelandish
Ichabod
Ichang lemon
Ichang lemons
Ichneumonidae (current term)
Ichthyosauridae
Ichyostega
Icke
Ictalurus
Ictalurus punctatus
Icteria
Icteria virens
Icteridae
Icterus galbula
Icterus galbula bullockii
Icterus galbula galbula
Icterus spurius
Ictiobus
Ictiobus niger

Literary usage of Ichneumonidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects: Founded on the by John Obadiah Westwood (1840)
"retaining the number of joints in the maxillary palpi as the leading character, has separated the Ichneumonidae into four families : 1. Ichneumonidae, 2. ..."

2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"The larvae of the Ichneumonidae are, as a rule, maggot-like. They may, however, possess at the posterior end of the body caudal appendages ..."

3. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1916)
"(42) Notes on the species belonging to the subfamily Ichneumonidae found in ... (45) Descriptions of Ichneumonidae chiefly from the Pacific slope of the ..."

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