Biology:Pirenidae
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Pirenidae is a family of chalcidoid wasps with a cosmopolitan distribution. It was formerly treated as a subfamily within the family Pteromalidae but is now recognized as a distinct family.[1] Members of the family are parasitioid or hyperparasitoid with hosts including Braconidae, Cecidomyiidae, and Coccoidea.[2]
Description
Bodies are 1-2mm long and weakly sclerotized and superficially sculptured.[2] Colors include yellowish, brown, black, and blue metallic.Antenna have a reduced number of flagellomeres.[2]
Genera
The subfamilies and genera of Pirenidae include the following:[1]
- Subfamily Cecidellinae
- Cecidellis
- Subfamily Eriaporinae
- Eunotiscus
- Promuscidea
- Subfamily Euryischiinae
- Euryischia
- Euryischomyia
- Myiocnema
- Subfamily Pireninae
- Ecrizotomorpha
- Keesia
- Lasallea
- Macroglenes
- Papuaglenes
- Petipirene
- Pirene
- Velepirene
- Watshamia
- Zebe
- Subfamily Tridyminae
- Calyconotiscus
- Ecrizotes
- Epiterobia
- Gastrancistrus
- Melancistrus
- Oxyglypta
- Premiscogaster
- Sirovena
- Spathopus
- Spinancistrus
- Tridymus
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 , Wikidata Q115923766
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan; Burks, Roger A.; Rasplus, Jean-Yves (2025-02-28), Heraty, John; Woolley, James, eds., "Pirenidae" (in en), Chalcidoidea of the World (GB: CABI): pp. 558–563, doi:10.1079/9781800623545.0051, ISBN 978-1-80062-352-1, http://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/9781800623545.0051, retrieved 2026-02-24
Further reading
- Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=DKzAmSDdLtsC.
- "Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico". Smithsonian Institution Press. 1979. https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/catalog-hymenoptera-america-north-mexico. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- Majka, C. (2009). "Thomas L. Casey and Rhode Island". ZooKeys (22): 267–283. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.93. Bibcode: 2009ZooK...22..267M.
External links
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