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Pteromalidae

Pteromalid wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

  Asaphinae
  Ceinae
  Cerocephalinae
Cleonyminae
  Colotrechinae
Diparinae

Epichrysomallinae

  Eunotinae
  Macromesinae
  Miscogastrinae
Ormocerinae

Otitesellinae

  Panstenoninae
  Parasaphodinae
Pireninae
Pteromalinae
  Spalangiinae

Sycoecinae

Sycoryctinae

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology Life history strategies are diverse. Species may be parasitoids, hyperparasitoids, inquilines, kleptoparasitoids of a wide variety of insects and arcahnids or phytophagous gall-formers.
Links

Chalcid Forum

CNCI Chalcidoidea site

UCR Chalcidoidea site

USDA SEL Chalcidoidea site

Universal Chalcidoidea Database

References

Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea, a biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International, Wallingford, UK. 832 pp.

Gibson 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.

Prinsloo, G.L. 1980. An illustrated guide to the families of African Chalcidoidea. Rep. S. Afr.,

Dept. Agric. Fish. Sci. Bull. No. 395: 1-66.

Credits

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