Orthogonalys Schulz

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Trigonaloidea; Family: Trigonalidae; Subfamily: Orthogonalinae)

Orthogonalys Schulz 1905. Type species: Orthogonalys boliviana Schulz 1905

Tapinogonalos Schulz 1907 (synonymy by Carmean & Kimsey 1998)

Satogonalos Teranishi 1931 (synonomy by Tsuneki 1991)

	Orthogonalys brevis Smith & Tripotin, 2012
	Orthogonalys hova Bischoff, 1933
	Orthogonalys gigantea Benoit, 1951
	Orthogonalys maculata Bischoff, 1933
	Orthogonalys parahova Smith & Tripotin, 2012
	Orthogonalys seyrigi Bischoff, 1933

Distribution	Worldwide, except for Western Palaearctic and Australasia.
Biology	Parasitoid of Tachinidae (Diptera) parasitizing Lepidoptera larva.
References	Bischoff, H. 1933. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Trigonaloiden. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum. Berlin 19, 480-496. Carmean, D. & Kimsey, L. 1998. Phylogenetic revision of the parasitoid wasp family Trigonalidae (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology 23, 35-76. Schulz, W.A. 1905. Hymenopteren-Studien. Engelmann, Leipzig. Smith, D.R. & Tripotin, P. 2012. Trigonalidae (Hymenoptera) of Madagascar. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 24: 1–25. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.24.1811 Weinsten, P. & Austin, A.D. 1991. The host relationships of trigonalyid wasps (Hymenoptera: Trigonalyidae), with a review of their biology and catalogue to world species. Journal of Natural History 25, 399-433.
Credits	Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or by Michele Touchet (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, Washington, DC).

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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