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Ormyridae
Sign in to saveThe Ormyridae are a small family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea. They are either parasitoids or hyperparasitoids on gall-forming insects, primarily cynipid wasps and tephritid flies. There are 153 species, mostly in the genus Ormyrus); the family has a worldwide distribution, although almost entirely absent from South America.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyOrmyridae
See Ormyrus species page.
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 191
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Ormyridae
- Collections
- NRM, DCH
- Recorded in
- Sweden, United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Chalcidoidea
- Image
- Ormyrus sp-Chalcid-wasp-20100908b.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ormyridae
- topic's main category
- Category:Ormyridae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Ormyridae
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- [[Asparagobiinae]] <small>van Noort, Burks, Mitroiu and Rasplus, 2024</small>
- [[Hemadinae]] van Noort, Burks, Mitroiu and Rasplus, 2024
- [[Ormyrinae]] Förster, 1856
- References
- External links
The Ormyridae are a small family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea. They are either parasitoids or hyperparasitoids on gall-forming insects, primarily cynipid wasps and tephritid flies. There are 153 species, mostly in the genus Ormyrus); 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ormyridae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.