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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Proctotrupoidea » Roproniidae » Ropronia

Genus Ropronia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
Roproniidae - Ropronia garmani - Ropronia garmani - female Roproniidae, individual variations - Ropronia garmani Roproniidae, individual #1, lateral - Ropronia garmani Roproniidae, individual #1, head - Ropronia garmani Ropronia? - Ropronia garmani Ropronia? - Ropronia small wasp with bulbous red abdomen - Ropronia small wasp with bulbous red abdomen - Ropronia
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 Proctotrupoidea
Family Roproniidae
Genus Ropronia
Explanation of Names
Ropronia Provancher, 1887
Numbers
3 NA species(1):
Ropronia californica - CA and OR
Ropronia pediculata - NY to MN
Ropronia garmani - Eastern NA
Identification
A key to species can be found in Townes 1949(1).
Food
Possibly parasitoids of sawfly larvae.
Internet References
GBIF
Works Cited
1.The Serphoid Hymenoptera of the family Roproniidae
Contributed by George Waldren on 15 January, 2008 - 3:12pm
Additional contributions by Nathaniel Green
Last updated 21 July, 2022 - 8:04pm

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