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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Chalcidoid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Torymidae » Monodontomerinae » Monodontomerus

Genus Monodontomerus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
wasp - Monodontomerus Aculeata - Monodontomerus Torymus sp? - Monodontomerus thorpi Monodontomerus - female Very tiny wasp - parasitic? - Monodontomerus - female Tiny metallic wasp - Monodontomerus - female Torymidae, dorsal - Monodontomerus - female Monodontomerus species - Monodontomerus - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Chalcidoidea (Chalcidoid Wasps)
Family Torymidae
Subfamily Monodontomerinae
Genus Monodontomerus
Explanation of Names
Monodontomerus Westwood 1833
Numbers
18 spp. in our area(1), 44 spp. worldwide(2)
Identification
Prominent tooth under hind femur near tip, presumably the origin of the genus name.
Range
in our area, mostly sw. US(3)
Food
hosts in our area include various hymenopterans [bees (Dianthidium, Megachile, Hoplitis...), eumenine wasps], gall wasps (Antistrophus), braconids (Aleiodes)], beetles (weevils of several families, Bruchinae, buprestids), caterpillars [Malacosoma fragile (Lasiocampidae), Eucaterva variaria (Geometridae)], dipterans [Deopalpus contiguus, Tachinidae]; worldwide, a wide variety of insects(3)
Works Cited
1.A Revision of New World Monodontomerus Westwood (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Torymidae)
Grissell EE. 2000. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 32 (1): 1-90.
2.Universal Chalcidoidea Database
3.A review of North American species of Microdontomerus Crawford (Torymidae: Hymenoptera)
Grissell E.E. 2005. J. Hymenoptera Res. 14(1): 22-65.
Contributed by Bob Carlson on 7 August, 2010 - 8:10pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, Vox Sciurorum, v belov, KenW
Last updated 2 June, 2021 - 10:33pm

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