Ormyridae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Chalcidoidea

Familia: Ormyridae
Genera (3): Eubeckerella – Ormyrulus – Ormyrus
Source(s) of checklist:
References

2011: Zootaxa 2907: 51–59. Preview PDF
Goméz, J.F., Nieves, M.H., Gayubo, S.F. & Nieves-Aldrey, J.L. 2017. Terminal-instar larval systematics and biology of west European species of Ormyridae associated with insect galls (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). ZooKeys 644: 51–88. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.644.10035. Reference page.
Lotfalizadeh, H. et al. 2012: The species of Ormyrus Westwood (Hymenoptera: Ormyridae) in Iran with description of an unusual new species. Zootaxa 3300: 34–44. Preview Reference page.

The Ormyridae are a small family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea. They are either parasitoids or hyperparasitoids on gall-forming insects, primarily cynipid wasps and tephritid flies. The 120 or so species in three genera (mostly in the genus Ormyrus) are cosmopolitan, except almost entirely absent from South America.

They are best recognized by distinctive scalloped sculpturing of their metasomal tergites.