Idiogramma comstockii

William Harris Ashmead initially described the species in 1895 and circumscribed a new genus, Lysiognatha, for it.[3] R. A. Cushman synonymized Lysiognatha with Idiogramma, making the species' name I. comstockii.[6]

Idiogramma comstockii
Female head, antero-ventral view
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Ichneumonidae
Genus:	Idiogramma
Species:	I. comstockii
Binomial name
Idiogramma comstockii (Ashmead, 1895)
Synonyms[1][2]
Lysiognatha comstockii Ashmead, 1895[3] Lysiognatha sulcata Cushman, 1937[4] Idiogramma sulcata (Cushman, 1937)[5]

Idiogramma comstockii is a species of wasp.

The specific name honors John Henry Comstock, who sent Ashmead the specimens in the type series. Herbert Huntingdon Smith collected the specimens in 1872 at Cayuga Lake, Ithaca, New York.[3]

Its distribution includes Canada, the United States, and northeast Mexico.[7]

References

1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki (1997–2012). "Idiogramma comstockii (Ashmead 1895)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
2. Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, Karl V.; Townes, Henry K. (1951). Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico: Synoptic catalog. United States Department of Agriculture Monograph. 2. Washington: United States Government Printing Office. p. 218.
3. Ashmead, William H. (1895). "Lysiognatha, a new and remarkable genus in the Ichneumonidæ". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 3 (4): 275–278.
4. Cushman, R. A. (1937). "The genus Lysiognatha Ashmead". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 27 (10): 438–444. JSTOR 24529416.
5. Townes, Jr., Henry K. (1944). A Catalogue and Reclassification of the Nearctic Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera). Part I. The Subfamilies Ichneumoninae, Tryphoninae, Cryptinae, Phaeogeninae and Lissonotinae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society. 11. Philadelphia: American Entomological Society at the Academy of Natural Sciences. p. 146.
6. Cushman, R. A. (1942). "The synonymy of Idiogramma Foerster (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 44 (3): 54.
7. Khalaim, Andrey I.; Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique (31 August 2017). "Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) associated with xyelid sawflies (Hymenoptera, Xyelidae) in Mexico". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 58: 17–27. doi:10.3897/jhr.58.12919.