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Orussidae
Sign in to savethumb|Orussus abietinus; Narew river near Pułtusk, Poland The Orussidae or the parasitic wood wasps represent a small family of sawflies ("Symphyta"). Currently, about 93 extant and four fossil species are known. They take a key position in phylogenetic analyses of Hymenoptera, because they form the sister taxon of the megadiverse apocritan wasps, and the common ancestor of Orussidae + Apocrita evolved parasitism for the first time in course of the evolution of the Hymenoptera. They are also the only sawflies with carnivorous larvae.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyOrussidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 55
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Orussidae
- Collections
- MNA, INHS, CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, OH (CLEV), EMEC, AM, KU
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Description
- Adults
- Larvae
- Biology and behavior
- Systematics
- Orussidae genera and species of the World
- Orussidae of the United States, Canada and Great Britain
- Fossils
- References
- External links
thumb|Orussus abietinus; Narew river near Pułtusk, Poland The Orussidae or the parasitic wood wasps represent a small family of sawflies ("Symphyta"). Currently, about 93 extant and four fossil species are known. They take a key position in phylogenetic analyses of Hymenoptera, because they form the sister taxon of the megadiverse apocritan wasps, and the common ancestor of Orussidae + Apocrita evolved parasitism for the first time in course of the evolution of the Hymenoptera. They are also the only sawflies with carnivorous larvae.
==Description==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orussidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.