Orthopelma

Orthopelma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Ichneumonidae
Subfamily:	Orthopelmatinae Schmiedeknecht, 1910
Genus:	Orthopelma Taschenberg, 1865

Orthopelma is a Holarctic genus of parasitics wasp. It is the only genus within the Ichneumonidae subfamily Orthopelmatinae. They are idiobiont endoparasitoids of cynipid galls on Rosaceae. Mostly Orthopelma are associated with Diplolepis on Rosa, but have recorded from Diastrophus on Rubus in the Nearctic. ^[1]

Species

The species in the genus Orthopelma include 13 extant species and one extinct species: ^{[1] [2]}

• Orthopelma aobing Hu, Zhang, Dal Pos, McCormark & Fang, 2025 ^[2]
• Orthopelma brevicorne Morley, 1907
• Orthopelma californicum Ashmead, 1890
• Orthopelma caucasicum Kasparyan, 2011
• Orthopelma chinensis Zhang, 2025 ^[3]
• † Orthopelma curvitibialis Statz, 1936
• Orthopelma dodecameron Kasparyan, 2011
• Orthopelma japonicum Kusigemati, 1974
• Orthopelma mediator (Thunberg, 1822)
• Orthopelma mukriyana Riedel, 2024 ^[4]
• Orthopelma occidentale Ashmead, 1890
• Orthopelma ovale (Provancher, 1874)
• Orthopelma simile Kusigemati, 1974
• Orthopelma superbum Kasparyan, 1984

References

1. Barron, J. R. (1977). "The Nearctic species of Orthoplema (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)". Systematic Entomology. 2 (4): 283–299. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1977.tb00377.x. ISSN   1365-3113.
2. Fang, Zhiqiang; Hu, Wenqian; Mccormack, Koorosh; Pos, Davide Dal; Tang, Chang-Ti; Zhu, Ying; Mao, Kangshan; Stone, Graham N.; Zhang, Y. Miles (2025-10-10). "New species of rose gall wasp Diplolepis Geoffroy, 1762 (Hymenoptera: Diplolepididae) and its parasitoid Orthopelma Taschenberg, 1865 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) on a rare endemic rose species in Sichuan, China". Zootaxa. 5706 (2): 231–246. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5706.2.5. ISSN   1175-5334.
3. Zhang, Chuan-Xi (2025-07-25). "A new species of the genus Orthopelma (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Orthopelmatinae) from China". Zootaxa. 5666 (1): 145–150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5666.1.9. ISSN   1175-5334.
4. Karimi, Soroush; Ghassemi-Kahrizeh, Akbar; Hosseinzadeh, Abbas; Lotfalizadeh, Hossein; Riedel, Matthias; Mohammadi-Khoramabadi, Abbas (2024-04-16). "Two new species and some new records of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from northwest of Iran". Zootaxa. 5437 (4): 549–559. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5437.4.7. ISSN   1175-5334.