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

Family Ormyridae

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Works Cited
Ormyrus venustus - female Wasp ID - Ormyrus small wasp - Ormyrus - female Blueberry Stem Gall Wasp - Hemadas nubilipennis Pteromalid from Diastrophus gall - Ormyrus - male Wasp - Ormyrus Parasitoid from fuzzy red cynipid gall - Ormyrus - male Ormyrus parasitoid from woody horned gall on Quercus phellos - Ormyrus - male
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 Ormyridae
Numbers
20 spp. in a single genus in our area, >140 spp. in 3 genera worldwide(1)
Identification
shape of the abdomen and rows of pits on each abdominal segment are diagnostic
Range
worldwide (one cosmopolitan genus + 2 monotypic Asian genera)(1)
Food
parasitoids of various gall-forming insects (cecidogenic cynipids, chalcids, Diptera, beetles, and thrips); a few may also parasitize phytophagous eurytomids in seeds(1)
Print References
Hanson P.E. (1992) The Nearctic species of Ormyrus (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Journal of Natural History 26: 1333-1365.
Works Cited
1.Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 13 December, 2007 - 7:26pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 25 December, 2012 - 7:22pm

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