Ormyridae

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Ormyridae
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Ormyrus sp.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Chalcidoidea
Family: Ormyridae
Förster, 1856
Genera

Asparagobius
Eubeckerella
Halleriaphagus
Hemadas
Ormyrus
Ouma

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The Ormyridae are a small family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea. They are either parasitoids or hyperparasitoids on gall-forming insects, [1] primarily cynipid wasps and tephritid flies. There are 153 species, mostly in the genus Ormyrus ); [2] the family has a worldwide distribution, although almost entirely absent from South America.

Some can be recognized by distinctive scalloped sculpturing of their metasomal tergites. Adults of many species are iridescent. [3]

Taxonomy

Reviewed in 2024. [2]

Asparagobiinae van Noort, Burks, Mitroiu and Rasplus, 2024

Hemadinae van Noort, Burks, Mitroiu and Rasplus, 2024

Ormyrinae Förster, 1856

References

  1. ↑ Gibson, G.A.P.; Huber, J.T.; Woolley, J.B.; Woolley, J.B., eds. (1997). "Chapter 15. Ormyridae by Paul Hanson". Annotated Keys to the Genera of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Monograph Publishing Program. NRC Research Press. pp. 531–533. ISBN   978-0-660-16669-8. p. 532 p. 533
  2. 1 2 van Noort, S., Mitroiu, M.D., Burks, R., Gibson, G., Hanson, P., Heraty, J., Janšta, P., Cruaud, A. and Rasplus, J.Y. (2024). Redefining Ormyridae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) with establishment of subfamilies and description of new genera. Systematic Entomology, 49(3), pp.447-494. DOI
  3. ↑ Roger A. Burks; Mircea-Dan Mitroiu; Lucian Fusu; et al. (20 December 2022). "From hell's heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)". Journal of Hymenoptera Research . 94: 13–88. doi: 10.3897/JHR.94.94263 . ISSN   1070-9428. Wikidata   Q115923766.


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