Usage examples:

• He sent Hephaestion, who was absent about some business, word how while they were fighting for their diversion with an ichneumon Craterus was by chance run through both thighs with Perdiccas's javelin. Clough, Arthur Hugh in "Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans".

• Prick up your ears, you little ichneumon now once more repeat what you are to say in there- do you see where I am pointing with my finger? Georg Ebers in "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers".

• Even the tiny egg of a butterfly has its ichneumon parasite, a microscopic wasp, which lays its own egg within the larger one, which ultimately hatches a wasp instead of the baby caterpillar. William Hamilton Gibson in "My Studio Neighbors".