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

Family Eupelmidae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Works Cited
Brasema rhadinosa - female Wasp ID - Anastatus semiflavidus - female Tiny metallic red wasp(?) - Eupelmus cynipidis Eupelmid from bristly, conical oak leaf gall - Brasema - male One of two eupelmids collected together - Brasema leucothysana - female Parasitica, lateral - Brasema - female Beautiful Wasp - Eusandalum - female Chalcidoid wasp from Io Moth eggs
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 Eupelmidae
Explanation of Names
Eupelmidae Walker 1833
Numbers
3 subfamilies, with >120 spp. in 17 genera in our area and >900 spp. in 45 genera worldwide(1)
Identification
Elongated metallic-colored body with a flat mesonotum, wings with a long marginal vein, some blotched. A long and stout mid-tibial spur, and the fore and hind-coxae widely separated.
Some are wingless or have very short wings.
Range
Worldwide
Food
Parasites on a wide range of species of different orders (Lepidoptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Neuroptera, Orthoptera); some are secondary parasites(1)(2)
Life Cycle
wide range of hosts; some spp. parasitize members of several orders. A few are parasites of spiders.
Remarks
Some jump using their ability to bend the head and abdomen over the thorax (somewhat as click beetles), the position they often assume after they die(2)
Works Cited
1.Universal Chalcidoidea Database
2.A handbook of the families of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). 2nd Edition
Grissell E.E., Schauff M. E. 1997. Ent. Soc. Wash. 87pp.
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 10 April, 2007 - 7:12pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 10 October, 2023 - 5:12pm

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