Family EMBOLEMIDAE
Compiler and date details
6 July 2012 - Danielle N. Stringer, John T. Jennings & Andrew D. Austin, Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide SA 5005
Introduction
This small, very rarely collected family is known from fewer than 20 species worldwide, including two species described from Australia belonging to the genera Ampulicomorpha and Embolemus. Embolemids vary in length from 2–5 mm. They have the anterior head protruding where the antennae are attached and superficially resemble diapriids in this respect. They also often have reduced eyes, particularly in females, which have the eye less than one-third the height of the head, and the fore femur slightly enlarged. Females are brachypterous and have wings that do not reach past the posterior mesosoma, while males are fully winged in Australasian species. One North American species has been reared as a parasitoid from a planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea); however, the biology of the Australasian species is unknown.
General References
Olmi, M. 1995. A revision of the world Embolemidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula Entomologica 18: 85–146
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 07-Aug-2012 | 25-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |