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Ormyrus sp. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Superfamily: | Chalcidoidea |
Family: | Ormyridae Förster, 1856 |
Genera | |
The Ormyridae are a small family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea. They are either parasitoidsorhyperparasitoidsongall-forming insects,[1] primarily cynipid wasps and tephritid flies. The 120 or so species (mostly in the genus Ormyrus) are cosmopolitan, except almost entirely absent from South America.
They are best recognized by distinctive scalloped sculpturing of their metasomal tergites. Adults of many species are iridescent.[2]
Reviewed in 2024.[3]
Ormyridae |
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