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CLASSIFICATION

Ormyrus Westwood

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Ormyridae; Subfamily: Ormyrinae)

Ormyrus Westwood, 1832: 127. Type species: Ormyrus punctiger Westwood, 1832.

Periglyphus Boheman, 1834: 378. Synonymy by von Dalla Torre, 1898: 598.

Siphonura Nees ab Esenbeck, 1834: 81. Synonymy by von Dalla Torre, 1898: 598.

Cyrtosoma Perris, 1840: 96. Synonymy by Mayr, 1904: 565.

Cyrtosoma (Monobaeus) Förster, 1860. New status in Doganlar, 1991: 3.

Cyrtosoma (Tribaeus) Förster, 1860. New status in Doganlar, 1991: 3.

Tribaeus Förster, 1860: 93. Synonymy by Mayr, 1904: 565.

Monobaeus Förster, 1860: 95. Synonymy by Mayr, 1904: 560.

Torymus (Chrysoideus) De Stefani, 1898: 172. Synonymy by Risbec, 1954: 535.

Wania Risbec, 1951: 535. Synonymy by Peck, 1963: 591.

Avrasyamyrus Doganlar, 1991: 3, 7–8. Synonymy by Hanson, 1992: 1335.

Ormyrulus Bouˇcek, 1986. Type species: Ormyrulus gibbus Bouˇcek, 1986. Synonymy by van Noort et al. 2024.

Afrotropical species:
  Ormyrus australis Risbec, 1957
  Ormyrus chevalieri (Risbec, 1955)
  Ormyrus fernandinus Nieves-Aldrey, Hernández & Gómez, 2007

Ormyrus flavipes Bouček, 1981

  Ormyrus eugeniae Risbec, 1956
  Ormyrus harongae (Risbec, 1952)

Ormyrus langlandi Girault, 1920

Ormyrus nkoloensis Rasplus, 2011

Ormyrus orientalis Walker, 1871

  Ormyrus ornatus (Risbec, 1951)
  Ormyrus sculptilis Crosby, 1909

Ormyrus striatus Cameron, 1907

Ormyrus subconicus Bouček, 1981

Ormyrus watshami Bouček, 1981

Ormyrus species 1
Ormyrus species 2
Distribution Worldwide.
Biology Parasitoids of various gall formers, especially Cynipidae (Hymenoptera) and Chalcidoidea (e.g., gall formers in syconia of Paleotropical figs), but also Cecidomyiidae and Tephritidae (Diptera) (Gomez et al., 2017; Hernández-Nieves, 2007; Noyes, 2019). Ormyrus gibbus (Bouˇcek, 1986) is a parasitoid of Procontarinia matteiana (Cecidomyiidae), which forms galls on leaves of mango trees, Mangifera indica (Bouˇcek, 1986).

References

Boucek, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. pp. 832pp. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, U.K., Cambrian News Ltd; Aberystwyth, Wales.

Burks R, Mitroiu M-D, Fusu L, Heraty JM, Janšta P, Heydon S, Papilloud ND-S, Peters RS, Tselikh EV, Woolley JB, van Noort S, Baur H, Cruaud A, Darling C, Haas M, Hanson P, Krogmann L, Rasplus J-Y. 2022. From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach to rendering Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera) monophyletic. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 94:13-88. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.94.94263

Cruaud A, Rasplus J-Y, Zhang J, Burks R, Delvare G, Fusu L, Gibson GAP, Gumovsky A, Hanson P, Huber JT, Janšta P, Mitroiu M-D, Noyes JS, van Noort S, Baker A, Böhmová J, Baur H, Blaimer BB, Brady1 SG, Bubeníková K, Chartois M, Copeland RS, Dale-Skey Papilloud N, Dal Molin A, Darling C, Dominguez C, Fisher N, Gates MW, Gebiola M, Guerrieri E, Haas M, Hansson C, Heydon S, Kresslein RL, Krogmann L, Moriarty Lemmon E, Mottern J, Murray E, Nidelet S, Nieves Aldrey JL, Perry R, Peters RS, Pinto JD, Polaszek A, Sauné L, Schmidt S, Torréns J, Triapitsyn S, Tselikh EV, Ubaidillah R, Yoder M, Lemmon A, Woolley JB, Heraty JM. In press. The Chalcidoidea bush of life–a massive radiation blurred by mutational saturation. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.11.507458

 

Gibson G.A.P. 1993. Superfamilies Mymarommatoidea and Chalcidoidea (pp. 570-655). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Gibson, G.A.P., Huber, J.T., Woolley, J.B. (Editors) 1997. Annotated keys to the genera of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) :794pp National Research Council Research Press, Ottawa, Canada.

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., Dal Molin, A., Triapitsyn, S., Baur, H., Pinto, J.D., van Noort, S., George, J. & Yoder, M. 2013. A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Cladistics 29: 466–542. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cla.12006

Rasplus, J.-Y., La Salle, J., Delvare, G., McKey, D. & Webber B. 2011. A new afrotropical genus and species of Tetrastichinae (Hymenoptera : Eulophidae) inducing galls on Bikinia (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae) and a new species of Ormyrus (Hymenoptera: Ormyridae) associated with the gall. Zootaxa 2907: 51–59.

van Noort S, Mitroiu M.-D, Burks R, Gibson G, Hanson P, Heraty J, Janšta P, Cruaud A, Rasplus J-Y. 2024. Redefining Ormyridae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) with establishment of subfamilies and description of new genera.Systematic Entomology 1–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen

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Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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