Family Torymidae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited

Torymid wasp - Torymus californicus - female

Chalcid from Schizomyia racemicola gall - Torymus - male

Green metallic wasp with an ovipositor - Monodontomerus

Chalcid wasp - Torymus californicus - 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

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sycophaginae have been transferred to Agaonidae(1); Toryminae and Megastigminae elevated to family rank in (2)

Explanation of Names

Torymidae Walker 1833

Numbers

Includes subfamilies: Chalcimerinae, Glyphomerinae, Monodontomerinae, Podagrioninae, Toryminae, and Microdontomerinae.

Torymidae s.l. (including Megastigmidae) (1) had ~230 spp. in 21 genera (Torymus being the largest one) in our area and ~1000 spp. in ~70 genera total(3)

Identification

Metallic green integument, sculptured thorax, long exerted ovipositor, forewing with long marginal wing veins and setae; stigmal cell very short. Laterally compressed abdomen and swollen metafemora are indicative of females.

Works Cited

1.	A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) Heraty J.M., Burks R.A., Cruaud A., Gibson G.A.P., Liljeblad J., Munro J., Rasplus J.-Y., Delvare G., Janšta P., Gumovsky A.... 2013. Cladistics 29: 466–542.

2.	Torymidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) revised: molecular phylogeny, circumscription and reclassification of the family... Janšta P., Cruaud A,, Delvare G., Genson G., Heraty J., Křížková B., Rasplus J.-Y. 2018. Cladistics 34: 627‒651.

3.	Universal Chalcidoidea Database

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 10 March, 2005 - 1:46pm
Additional contributions by Richard Leung, ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 10 October, 2023 - 8:06pm

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