Trachypetidae

Trachypetidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Superfamily:	Ichneumonoidea
Family:	Trachypetidae; Schulz, 1911
Genera
	Cercobarcon Tobias, 1979; Megalohelcon Turner, 1918; Trachypetus Guérin-Méneville, 1830;
Synonyms
	Trachypetinae

The family Trachypetidae was erected in 2020 for three rare Australian genera of large parasitoid wasps formerly included in the family Braconidae, and now considered to be sister taxon to braconids.[1]

References

Quicke, Donald L. J.; Austin, Andrew D.; Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P.; Hebert, Paul D. N.; Butcher, Buntika A. "Recognition of the Trachypetidae stat.n. as a new extant family of Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), based on molecular and morphological evidence". Systematic Entomology. doi:10.1111/syen.12426.

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[1] Quicke, Donald L. J.; Austin, Andrew D.; Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P.; Hebert, Paul D. N.; Butcher, Buntika A. "Recognition of the Trachypetidae stat.n. as a new extant family of Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), based on molecular and morphological evidence". Systematic Entomology. doi:10.1111/syen.12426.