Lyciscidae
{{Short description|Family of wasps}}
{{automatic taxobox
| image = Thaumasura 5-136783029.jpg
| image_caption = Thaumasura sp.
| taxon = Lyciscidae
| authority = Bouček, 1958
| subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies
| subdivision = Lyciscinae
}}
Lyciscidae is a family of chalcid wasps.{{Cite journal |first1=Roger A.|last1= Burks |first2=Mircea-Dan |last2=Mitroiu |first3=Lucian |last3= Fusu |display-authors=etal |doi=10.3897/JHR.94.94263 |doi-access=free |id=Wikidata Q115923766 |issn=1070-9428 |journal=Journal of Hymenoptera Research |language=en |pages=13–88 |publication-date=20 December 2022 |title=From hell's heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) |volume=94|url=https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03957479/file/JHR-94-013_article-94263_en_1.pdf }} The genera comprising this family were previously placed in the Cleonyminae subfamily of a paraphyletic Pteromalidae.{{cite web |last1=Noyes |first1=J. S. |date=March 2019|title=Universal Chalcidoidea Database |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids |publisher=The Natural History Museum |access-date=5 April 2023}}
Description and biology
Many species have metallic green, blue and bronze colours, and stout hind legs and fore legs. The females of most species have a tapered abdomen and a long ovipositor suited to accessing hosts concealed in wood; they are often encountered on trunks or branches of trees. Many are parasitoids of wood-boring beetles of the families Buprestidae (jewel beetles), Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles), and Curculionidae (weevils). However, some Agamerion species are parasitoids of cockroach egg masses, Epistenia species parasitize twig-nesting aculate wasps and bees, and Marxiana grandiosa is a hyperparasite of braconid wasps (which are, in turn, parasitoids of wood-boring beetles).{{cite book|last=Gibson|first= Gary A. P.|date= June 30, 2003|title= Phylogenetics and classification of Cleonyminae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae)|publisher= Associated Publishers|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271195928|volume=16|series= Memoirs on Entomology, International}}
Subfamilies and genera
=Lyciscinae=
- Agamerion
- Amazonisca
- Chadwickia
- Epistenia
- Eupelmophotismus
- Hadroepistenia
- Hedqvistia
- Lycisca
- Marxiana
- Mesamotura
- Neboissia
- Neoepistenia
- Nepistenia
- Paralycisca
- Parepistenia
- Proglochin
- Proshizonotus
- Protoepistenia
- Riekisura
- Romanisca
- Scaphepistenia
- Shedoepistenia
- Striatacanthus
- Thaumasura
- Urolycisca
- Westwoodiana
=Solenurinae=
Gallery
Agamerion 1 96197467.jpg|Agamerion sp., Australia.
Epistenia 2-101845654.jpg| Epistenia coeruleata, USA.
Eupelmophotismus 4-109040441.jpg|Eupelmophotismus sp., Australia.
Thaumasura 7-36458636.jpg|Thaumasura sp., Australia.
Solenura ania (10.3897-BDJ.8.e54961) Figure 4.jpg|Solenura ania, China.
References
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