Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
The subfamily Oxytorinae (=Microleptinae) includes a number of genera about which so little is known that their phylectic relationships with other ichneumonid genera are particularly in doubt. Hence, their position in the classification of the family is somewhat a matter of speculation. Oxytorus and Microleptes are two of these genera of doubtful affinities. Of the 24 genera of Oxytorinae recognized by Townes (1971), 19 have Nearctic species. Species of some genera have been reared from Mycetophilidae, but for most of the genera no hosts are known.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
