Ormyridae
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| Ormyridae | |
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| Ormyrus sp. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Suborder: | Apocrita |
| Superfamily: | Chalcidoidea |
| Family: | Ormyridae Förster, 1856 |
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Ormyridae is a small family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea. They are either parasitoids or hyperparasitoids on gall-forming insects, primarily cynipid wasps and tephritid flies. There are some 120 species in 3 genera (mostly in the genus Ormyrus), and they are almost entirely absent from South America.
They are best recognized by distinctive scalloped sculpturing of the metasomal tergites.
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