Landmark dataset of fore wings of Darwin wasps (Ichneumonidae)

This tps file includes the forewing landmark data of Darwin wasps (Ichneumonidae). The fore wing shape is defined with 21 fixed landmarks and additionally 1 curve consisting of 8 semi landmarks which represent the vein 2m-cu (landmarks equally spaced).

Included are 669 taxa, representing 41 extant subfamilies. The landmark data of 333 extant taxa were published before in Viertler et al. (2022), and are here included together with many more taxa. The newly added data might still be errouneous. The landmarks were mainly placed on illustrations of Townes (see references), but some were added from photos of the respective species.