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

Family Chalcididae - Chalcidid Wasps

Classification · Pronunciation · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Food · Works Cited
Wasp? - Phasgonophora sulcata Chalcididae - Conura sp? - Conura Conura Hockeria rubra - female Parasitic Wasp SacramentoCalifornia - Brachymeria ovata Phasgonophora sulcata? - Phasgonophora sulcata - female Unknown species - Brachymeria podagrica Conura maculata group - Conura
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 Chalcididae (Chalcidid Wasps)
Pronunciation
kal-SID-i-dee
khal-KID-id (using Greek and Latin pronunciation)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
"Chalcidae" in older literature
Explanation of Names
Chalcididae Latreille, 1817
= from the Greek χαλκός (khalkos) meaning 'bronze, copper' - a reference to metallic color
Numbers
>140 spp. in 15 genera of 7 subfamilies in our area and ca. 1500 spp. in ~90 genera of 8 subfamilies worldwide(1)(2)
Size
2.5‒9.0 mm(1)
Food
hosts: mostly Lepidoptera and Diptera; a few attack Hymenoptera, Coleoptera or Neuroptera(1). Parasites of Lepidoptera usually attack young pupae, while those of Diptera attack mature larvae.(3)
Works Cited
1.Universal Chalcidoidea Database
2.Ultra‐Conserved Elements and morphology reciprocally illuminate conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses in Chalcididae
Cruaud, Delvare, Nidelet, Sauné, Ratnasingham, Chartois, Blaimer, Gates, Brady, Faure, van Noort, Rossi, & Rasplus. 2020. Cladistics 37(1): 1-35.
3.A handbook of the families of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). 2nd Edition
Grissell E.E., Schauff M. E. 1997. Ent. Soc. Wash. 87pp.
Contributed by Joel Kits on 20 April, 2005 - 9:37pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, ceiseman, v belov, PaleoJon, Arturo Santos
Last updated 29 March, 2024 - 1:34am

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