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Mymaromma Girault

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Mymarommatoidea; Family: Mymarommatidae)

Mymaromma Girault, 1920. Type species: Mymaromma goethei Girault, original designation. Synonymy under Palaeomymar Meunier by Doutt (1973).

Petiolaria Blood & Kryger, 1922. Type species: Petiolaria anomala Blood & Kryger, by monotypy. Synonymy under Mymaromma by Girault (1930).

Classification

  Mymaromma buyckxi (Mathot, 1966)
Mymaromma species

Distribution

Worldwide. Afrotropical region: Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Madagascar, Nigeria, Uganda.

Biology

Mymaromma menehune Honsberger & Huber, 2022 recorded as a solitary endoparasitoid of eggs of a Lepidopsocus sp. (Psocodea: Lepidopsocidae) on branches of Ficus microcarpa (Moraceae).

References

Blood, B.N., Kryger, J.P. 1922. A new mymarid from Brockenhurst. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 58: 229.

Doutt, R.L. 1973. The fossil Mymaridae. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 49(3): 221-228.

Girault, A.A. 1920. New genera and species of chalcid-flies from Australia. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 8(1-3): 38.

Girault, A.A. 1930. New pests from Australia, VIII. Privately printed, Brisbane. 5 pp.

Gibson, G.A.P., Read, J. Huber, J.T. 2007. Diversity, classification and higher relationships of Mymarommatoidea (Hymenoptera). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 16(1): 51-146.

Honsberger DN, Huber JT, Wright MG. 2022. A new Mymaromma sp. (Mymarommatoidea,
Mymarommatidae) in Hawai‘i and first host record for the superfamily
. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 89: 73–87. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.89.77931

Mathot, G. 1966. Contribution à la connaissance des Mymaridae et Mymarommatidae d'Afrique Centrale. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Entomologique de Belgique 102: 213-239.

Meunier, F. 1901. Contribution à la faune des Mymaridae ou 'atomes ailés' de l'ambre. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 25: 282-292, 1 pl.

Credits

Photographs and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


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>).

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