▪ Abstract The Platygastroidea comprises two families of parasitoids, Scelionidae and
Platygastridae, and nearly 4500 described species. They parasitize a diverse array of …

One of the more unusual groups of insect pathogens consists of members of the family
Polydnaviridae, insect DNA viruses that live in mutual symbioses with their associated …

The internal phylogeny of the Ichneumonidae is investigated using parsimony analysis of a
large data set including 1001 partial 28S ribosomal DNA sequences, 621 of which are newly …

Symbionts often exhibit significant reductions in genome complexity while pathogens often
exhibit increased complexity through acquisition and diversification of virulence …

A combined morphological and molecular phylogenetic analysis was performed to evaluate
the subfamily relationships of the parasitoid wasp family Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) …

The first comprehensive phylogenetic study of the wasp tribe C ryptini (H ymenoptera, I
chneumonidae, C ryptinae) is presented, based on 109 morphological characters and …

We test hypotheses for the evolution of a life history trait among a group of parasitoid wasps
(Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), namely, the transition among koinobiont parasitoids …

The ovigeny index, previously identified as both a significant fitness variable in parasitoid
wasps and an important factor in parasitoid–host population dynamics, is the proportion of …

The evolutionary history of Ichneumoninae, the largest subfamily of ichneumonid wasps, is
investigated using genomic ultraconserved elements (UCEs). The dataset includes 147 …

The phylogenetic relationships of the suprageneric groups of the ichneumonid subfamily
Pimplinae (Hymenoptera) are re-assessed using 166 morphological and biological …