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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Chalcid Wasps (Chalcidoidea) » Eurytomidae

Family Eurytomidae

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Parasite Eurytoma gigantea - female small Hymenopteran wasp - male wasp - male wasp - male Wasp ID - female Pupa found in goldenrod gall, Eurytoma obtusiventris? - Eurytoma obtusiventris
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (parasitic Apocrita)
Superfamily Chalcidoidea (Chalcid Wasps)
Family Eurytomidae
Numbers
Nearctica lists 250 species
Identification
Similar to Perilampids but more slender. Usually black, with thorax, head and antennae rather hairy.
Food
Some are parasitic and some are phytophagous.
Remarks
Often treated as a mere subfamily (Eurytominae) of Pteromalids in most recent classifications.
Print References
(1) p. 663.
Internet References
Wikipedia
Chalcidoid page
Works Cited
1.Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects
By Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn
Contributed by tom murray on 15 June, 2006 - 9:05pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 12 November, 2007 - 9:17am

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