Orussus

Orussus
Orussus abietinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Orussidae
Genus:	Orussus Latreille, 1796
Synonyms
Oryssus Latreille, 1798 (Emend.) Heliorussus Benson 1955

Orussus is a genus of parasitic wood wasps in the family Orussidae. There are about 30 described species in Orussus.

Species

• Orussus abietinus (Scopoli, 1763) ^[1]
• Orussus afer Guiglia, 1937
• Orussus areolatus Blank & Vilhelmsen, 2014
• Orussus bensoni Guiglia, 1937
• Orussus boninensis Yasumatsu, 1954
• Orussus brunneus Shinohara & Smith, 1983
• Orussus coreanus Takeuchi, 1938
• Orussus decoomani Maa, 1950
• Orussus hanumanus Vilhelmsen & Blank, 2014
• Orussus japonicus Tosawa, 1930
• Orussus loriae Mantero, 1899
• Orussus melanosoma Lee & Wei, 2014 ^[2]
• Orussus minutus Middlekauff, 1983
• Orussus moroi Guiglia, 1954 ^[3]
• Orussus occidentalis Cresson, 1879
• Orussus punctulatissimus Blank & Vilhelmsen, 2014
• Orussus rufipes Tsuneki, 1963
• Orussus sayii Westwood, 1835
• Orussus schoutedeni Guiglia, 1937
• Orussus scutator (Benson, 1955)
• Orussus smithi Blank, Kraus & Taeger, 2006
• Orussus spinifer (Benson, 1955)
• Orussus striatus Maa, 1950
• Orussus taorminensis Trautmann, 1922 ^[3]
• Orussus terminalis Newman, 1838
• Orussus tessmanni Enslin, 1913
• Orussus thoracicus Ashmead, 1898
• Orussus unicolor Latreille, 1812 ^[1]
• Orussus zhui Vilhelmsen, Liu, Smith & Blank, 2014

References

1. Varga, Oleksandr (2018-09-30). "The genus Orussus (Hymenoptera: Orussidae) in The Ukrainian Carpathians". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
2. CHOI, JIN-KYUNG; WEI, MEICAI; VILHELMSEN, LARS; LEE, JONG-WOOK (2014-10-16). "A new Orussus species from South Korea, and a key to the East Asian Orussidae (Hymenoptera)". Zootaxa. 3873 (3). Magnolia Press: 250–258. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3873.3.4. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   25544220.
3. Pesarini, F; Turrisi, G F (2003-01-01). "Orussus taorminensis (Trautmann, 1922) (Hymenoptera, Orussidae), new to Iberian Peninsula and to Africa". Boletin - Asociacion Espanola de Entomologia. 27: 93–98. ISSN   0210-8984 . Retrieved 2024-10-16.

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN   0-8493-0212-9.
• Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd Jr., Paul D. Jr.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B.D., eds. (1979). "Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico". Smithsonian Institution Press. Retrieved 2018-04-06.

External links

• Media related to Orussus at Wikimedia Commons