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Species Torymus californicus - Oak Gall Chalcid


A taxonomic and ecological review of the north American chalcid-flies of the genus Callimome
By L. L. Huber
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 70, Art. 14, pp. 1-114, with pls. 1-4, 1927
Torymus=Callimome Spinola 1811, Syntomapsis Förster 1856

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A revision of western Nearctic species of Torymus Dalman (Hymenoptera: Torymidae)
By Grissell, E. E.
University of California Publications in Entomology, 1976
This 120 page work is Vol. 79 of the series: "University of California Publications in Entomology".

It's an excellent reference and a very useful resource for those of us in the west.

Erimerinae, a prior name to Microdontomerinae (Hymenoptera, Torymidae) with the description of a new genus and three new spec
By Hossein Lotfalizadeh, Zohreh Mirzaee, Gholamreza Tavakoli-Korghond, Petr Janšta, Jean-Yves Rasplus
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2024

Torymidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) Associated with Bees (Apoidea), with a List of Chalcidoid Bee Parasitoids
By Grissell EE
Journal of Hymenoptera Research 16(2):234-265, 2007

From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoid
By Burks, Mitroiu, Fusu, Heraty, Janšta, Heydon, Papilloud, Peters, Tselikh, Woolley, van Noort, Baur, Cruaud, Darling, Haas, et a
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 94: 13-88, 2022
Full author list: Roger Burks, Mircea-Dan Mitroiu, Lucian Fusu, John M. Heraty, Petr Janšta, Steve Heydon, Natalie Dale-Skey Papilloud, Ralph S. Peters, Ekaterina V. Tselikh, James B. Woolley, Simon van Noort, Hannes Baur, Astrid Cruaud, Christopher Darling, Michael Haas, Paul Hanson, Lars Krogmann, & Jean-Yves Rasplus

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Anchored phylogenomics and a revised classification of the planidial larva clade of jewel wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)
By Zhang J, Heraty JM, Darling C, Kresslein RL, Baker AJ, Torréns J, Rasplus J-Y, Lemmon A, Lemmon EM
Sys. Entomol. 47: 329–353, 2022

Synopsis of the North American Species Belonging to the Genera Leucospis, Smicra and Chalcis
By E.T. Cresson
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 4, pp. 29-60, 1872

A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)
By 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....
Cladistics 29: 466–542, 2013
Full list of authors: 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., Huber J., Woolley J.B., Krogmann L., Heydon S., Polaszek A., Schmidt S., Darling D.C., Gates M.W., Mottern J., Murray E., Molin A.D., Triapitsyn S., Baur H., Pinto J.D., van Noort S., George J., Yoder M.

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