Orthocentrinae Foerster, 1869

Manukyan, Andranik R. & Zhindarev, Leonid A., 2021, Fossil Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Baltic amber, Palaeoentomology 4 (6), pp. 637-647 : 639

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.6.13
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5780000
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8F749744-FF9A-FFF7-FCA9-FE91FA8FF8E0
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scientific name	Orthocentrinae Foerster, 1869
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Subfamily Orthocentrinae Foerster, 1869

Orthocentrinae is a world-wide subfamily that includes small and moderate-sized ichneumonids. They are parasitoids of primitive Diptera View in CoL , mainly of the superfamily Sciaroidea . There are 29 extant genera and over 500 species ( Humala, 2019). Fossil Orthocentrinae are found in Green River ( Cockerell, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1941), Bembridge marls ( Khalaim, 2014), Florissant ( Brues, 1906, 1910) and other Cenozoic deposits.

In Baltic amber, two species are known from the fossil genus Scutellator Kasparyan & Humala, 1995 View in CoL : S. macrommatu Kasparyan & Humala, 1995 and S. spinatorius Kasparyan & Humala, 1995 View in CoL . One species, Plectiscidea vetusta Kasparyan & Humala, 1995 View in CoL , was described in the Recent genus Plectiscidea Viereck, 1914 View in CoL . One specimen on Orthocentrinae with unclear taxonomic position was found in the KAM collection.