Taxonomy page

The nomenclatural part of the Ichneumonoidea 2004 module is made up of 63,416 names gleamed from the literature up to December 2004. The names are arranged in a downward dividing structure (an upside-down tree) with subspecies and species at the bottom and going up to subgenera and genera, tribe and subtribe etc. Ichneumonoidea is comprised of two main families, Braconidae with 48 subfamilies and 17,605 valid species and Ichneumonidae with 40 subfamilies and 23,331 valid species.

The taxonomic part of the database contains source of the original description, name bearing type information (holotype, lectotype and neotype for species level taxa, and species or genus for supra-specific taxa), changes in combination, synonymies, homonymies, and relevant taxonomic information relates to nomenclature and systematics.