| Rhyssinae Temporal range: Eocene - Present
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| Rhyssella nitida | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Ichneumonidae |
| Subfamily: | Rhyssinae Morley, 1913 |
Rhyssinae is a subfamily of parasitoid wasps in the family Ichneumonidae. It contains eight genera and 259 described species, but there are likely many undiscovered species.[1][2]
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All possess long ovipositors, which are used by females to bore into tree trunks to lay eggs on the larvae of horntails and wood-boring beetles.
Females in genus Megarhyssa show very long ovipositors, with M. atrata reaching 14 cm in length. [3]
- ^ Kim, Ki-Beom; Kang, Gyu-Won; Lee, Jong-Wook (2018-03-01). "Taxonomic review of the subfamily Rhyssinae Morley (Hymenoptera:Ichneumonidae) with seven newly recorded species from South Korea". Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. 11 (1): 123–131. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2017.11.005. ISSN 2287-884X.
- ^ Noort, Simon Van; Rousse, Pascal (2014-07-25). "A review of the Afrotropical Rhyssinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) with the descriptions of five new species". European Journal of Taxonomy (91). doi:10.5852/ejt.2014.91. ISSN 2118-9773.
- ^ Le Lannic, Joseph; Nénon, J.-P. (1999-10-18). "Functional morphology of the ovipositor in Megarhyssa atrata (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) and its penetration into wood". Zoomorphology. 119 (2): 73–79. doi:10.1007/s004350050082. ISSN 0720-213X.