Glyphomerus Förster

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

Glyphomerus Förster, 1856. Type species: Ichneumon stigma Fabricius, 1793.

	Glyphomerus aylax Stojanova, 2005
	Glyphomerus carinatus Nikol'skaya, 1952
	Glyphomerus europaeus (Erdös, 1957)
	Glyphomerus flavabdomen Zerova, 2008
	Glyphomerus isosomatis Zerova & Seryogina, 1999
	Glyphomerus montanus Zerova & Seryogina, 1999
	Glyphomerus parvulus Zerova & Seryogina, 2000
	Glyphomerus stigma (Fabricius, 1793)
	Glyphomerus tibialis Förster, 1856

Distribution	Indo-Australian: Australia, Japan; Holarctic: Canada (Alberta, Ontario, Quebec) Czech Republic, Czechoslavia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Romania, Russia (Kostroma Oblast), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Tajikstan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, U.S.A. (California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, New Jersey, Oregan), Ukraine, United Kingdom (England), USSR (Siberia), Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia.
Biology	Parasitoids of gall wasps: Cynipinae, Synerginae (Cynipidae); less commonly of Anthophorinae (Apidae), and Eurytominae (Chalcidoidea).
Reference	Förster, A. 1856. Hymenopterologische Studien. 2. Chalcidiae und Proctotrupii. 152pp. Aachen.
Credits	Photograph (banner) © Petr Jansta (Charles University, Prague). Photograph of Glyphomerus stigma © WSDA Entomology, Washington State Department of Agriculture. Creative Commons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2012) http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=481493
	Next genus: Palaeotorymus

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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