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Definition of Ichneumonidae
1. Noun. Ichneumon flies.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Hymenoptera, Order Hymenoptera
Member holonyms: Ichneumon Fly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ichneumonidae
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 ..."