Omphale (wasp)

Omphale
Omphale matrana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Eulophidae
Subfamily:	Entedoninae
Genus:	Omphale Haliday, 1833
Type species
Omphale salicis (Haliday, 1833)
Species
At least 271 species [1]

Omphale is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae. ^[1] It has cosmopolitan distribution. ^{[2] [3]} They are parasitoids of gall midges (Cecidomyiidae). ^[2]

Species

There are at least 271 species, including: ^[1]

• Omphale cornula Hansson & Shevtsova, 2012
• Omphale salicis (Haliday, 1833)

References

1. "Omphale Haliday, 1833". Catalogue of Life . Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
2. Hansson, Christer & Shevtsova, Ekaterina (2012). "Revision of the European species of Omphale Haliday (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae)". ZooKeys (232): 1–157. Bibcode:2012ZooK..232....1H. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.232.3625 . PMC   3494065 . PMID   23226702.
3. Yefremova, Zoya; et al. (2017). "A new species of Omphale Haliday, 1833 (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) from Bulgaria". Acta Zoologica Bulgarica. Suppl 8: 119–122.

Further reading

• Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
• Universal Chalcidoidea Database Archived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine