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Genus Aulogymnus

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Wasp ID - Aulogymnus - female Eulophid Wasp - Aulogymnus Eulophid Wasp - Aulogymnus Chalcid wasp - Aulogymnus Eulophid wasp - Aulogymnus Eulophid wasp - Aulogymnus small wasp - Aulogymnus Tiny Wasp - Aulogymnus

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 Eulophidae
Subfamily Eulophinae
Tribe Cirrospilini
Genus Aulogymnus

Explanation of Names

Aulogymnus Förster 1851

Numbers

10 spp. in our area(1), ~40 total(2)

Size

up to 5 mm

Identification

color often metallic green, purple, or blue, matte yellow or orange, or a combination of the two
clypeus bilobed
mesotibia with spur as long as or longer than mesobasitarsus
notauli complete, straight
funicle 2- or 3-segmented (some males have 4)
forewing with stigmal vein elongated and uncus separated from apex, submarginal vein generally longer than marginal, larger species often with admarginal infuscate areas
Key to spp. in (1)

Life Cycle

hosts: gall wasps (Cynipidae) on oaks

Internet References

Taxon page(3)

Works Cited

1.Review of Nearctic Aulogymnus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) with nomenclatural changes
Schauff M.E., Gates M.W. 2005. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 69: 225-245.
2.Universal Chalcidoidea Database
3.Burks R.A. Key to the nearctic genera of Eulophidae, subfamilies: Entedoninae, Euderinae and Eulophinae (Hym.: Chalcidoidea)
Contributed by Ken Wolgemuth on 8 March, 2018 - 12:48pm
Additional contributions by v belov, behmrachel
Last updated 10 September, 2021 - 5:57pm

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