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Definition of Ichneumon fly

Ichneumon fly
Ichneumon Ich*neu"mon, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, lit., the tracker; so called because it hunts out the eggs of the crocodile, fr. ? to track or hunt after, fr. ? track, footstep.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverrid[ae]. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra. 2. (Zo["o]l.) Any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonid[ae], of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera. Note: The female deposits her eggs upon, or in, the bodies of other insects, such as caterpillars, plant lice, etc. The larva lives upon the internal tissues of the insect in which it is parasitic, and finally kills it. Hence, many of the species are beneficial to agriculture by destroying noxious insects. Ichneumon fly. See Ichneumon, 2.

Meaning of Ichneumon fly from wikipedia

- clade, now known to be paraphyletic. The name is derived from Latin 'ichneumon', from Ancient Gr**** ἰχνεύμων (ikhneúmōn, "tracker"), from ἴχνος (íkhnos...
- beneficial rodents. For example, insects such as Chrysoperla carnea and the Ichneumon fly can prey on pests. The concept was developed by the Game & Wildlife...
- ovipositor and so do some species of long-horned gr****hoppers. In the ichneumon wasp genus Megarhyssa, the females have a slender ovipositor (terebra)...
- compositional analysis: Coleoptera (beetles), Hymenoptera (sawflies, ichneumon flies, bees, wasps and ants), terrestrial larvae (moth, sawfly and beetle)...
- Theatre (1925); Krashoff in The Dare-Devil at the Strand Theatre (1924); Ichneumon Fly, Inventor in the British premiere of The Insect Play at the Regent Theatre...
- Department of Entomology. His Master thesis was "Hibernation in the ichneumon-fly subfamily Ichneumoninae". The same year Rasnitsyn joined the Laboratory...
- a hover fly parasitoid wasp in the Diplazontinae subfamily of the Ichneumonid wasp family (Ichneumonidae) It was first described as Ichneumon laetatorius...
- burrowed, and sowing late in spring or early in autumn. A little black ichneumon fly deposits her eggs within these larvae, and destroys many. The Database...
- butterflies and moths, various bees, ants, dragonflies and damselflies, ichneumon wasps, gr****hoppers, and some spiders. They do so apparently irrespective...
- Durango, bordering the State of Nayarit. Holt reported a new type of ichneumon fly in the spring of 1896, a female example taken at Las Cruces, New Mexico...