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Erimerinae

Erimerine wasps of the world

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

Erimerinae Crawford, 1914: 123. Type genus Erimerus Crawford, 1914.

Erimerinae Crawford, 1914 (classified as Torymidae Walker, 1833) in Grissell, 1979b: 759.

Microdontomerini Grissell, 1995a: 63,72-75.

Erimerinae Crawford, 1914 (subjective synonym of Microdontomerini Grissell, 1995) in Grissell, 1995a: 20.

Microdontomerinae Grissell, 1995 (family-group name form of Microdontomerini Grissell, 1995). Synonymy by Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus (2024).

Microdontomerinae Grissell, 1995 in Janšta, Cruaud, Delvare, Genson, Heraty, Krízková & Rasplus, 2018: 627,638,642.

Classification

 

Adontomerus Nikol'skaya, 1955

 

Cryptopristus Förster 1856

 

Ditropinotus Crawford, 1907

Echthrodape Burks, 1969

 

Eridontomerus Crawford, 1907

 

Erimerus Crawford, 1914

 

Exopristus Ruschka 1923

 

Idarnotorymus Masi, 1916

Microdontomerus Crawford, 1907
 

Ophiopinotus Husain & Kudeshia, 1987

 

Persimerus Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus, 2024

 

Zophodetus Grissell, 1980

Distribution

Afrotropical, Nearctic, Oriental, Palaearctic regions.

Biology Hosts: Anthribidae, Bombyliidae, Braconidae, Buprestidae, Cecidomyiidae, Chrysomelidae, Coleophoridae, Curculionidae, Cynipidae.

References

Bouček, Z. 1978. A study of the non-podagrionine Torymidae with enlarged hind femora, with a key to the African genera (Hymenoptera). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 41: 91-134.

Burks, B.D. 1969. New Perilampidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Proceedings of Entomological Society of Washington 71: 73-81.

Crawford JC. 1914. Notes on the chalcidoid family Callimomidae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 16: 122–126.

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.

Grissell, E.E. 1995. Toryminae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Torymidae). Associated Publishers, Gainesville, Florida, 470pp.

Janšta, P & Cruaud, A & Delvare, G & Genson, G & Heraty, J & Krizkova, B & Rasplus, J-Y. 2017. Torymidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) revised: Molecular phylogeny, circumscription and reclassification of the family with discussion of its biogeography and evolution of life-history traits. Cladistics. 10.1111/cla.12228.

Janšta P, Delvare G, Krogmann L, Schütte K, Peters RS. 2016. Systematics, biology and distribution of Microdontomerus iridis (Picard, 1930), comb. n. (Hymenoptera, Torymidae, Toryminae, Microdontomerini), a parasitoid of Mantodea oothecae. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 48: 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3897/JHR.48.7470

Lotfalizadeh H, Mirzaee Z, Tavakoli-Korghond G, Janšta P, Rasplus J-Y. 2024. Erimerinae, a prior name to Erimerinae (Hymenoptera, Torymidae) with the description of a new genus and three new species from Iran. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 97: 85–103. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.97.115028

Risbec, J. 1951. 1. Les Chalcidoides de l'Afrique occidentale française. Mémoires de l'Institute Français d'Afrique Noire, Ifan-Dakar 13: 7-409.

Credits

Photographs © Petr Jansta (Charles University, Prague).


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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