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Ichneumonidae (Darwin Wasps)

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The common name for the Ichneumonidae was inspired by a letter that Charles Darwin wrote to Asa Gray on 22 May 1860, where he said, "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars."

Xorides californicus, 29 May 2020
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Key to the Subfamilies of North and Central American Ichneumonidae