Caradiophyodidae, a New Family of Micro-Wasps (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea) Based on the Description of Caradiophyodus saradae gen. et sp. nov. in Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber [PDF]
Life, 2023 The female micro-wasp in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber is described as a new genus and species in the extinct family Caradiophyodidae fam. nov. (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea). Features of the specimen are its small body size (1.3 mm), no elbows, elongated,
George Poinar, Fernando E. Vega
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Telenomus cristatus Johnson (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae): new diagnostic data, distribution records and host associations [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 Specimens of an egg parasitoid wasp, Telenomus cristatus Johnson (Platygastroidea, Scelionidae), were reared from stink bug egg masses collected in the wild, in Maryland, United States. The egg masses were identified morphologically as Halyomorpha halys (
Madeline Potter +4 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Trissolcus japonicus (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae), the candidate for the biological control of Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021 The samurai wasp Trissolcus japonicus (Ashmead, 1904) is a parasitoid hymenopteran that came into the limelight as the natural enemy of Halyomorpha halys. Here, we present the complete sequence of the mitochondrial genome of the CREATJ laboratory strain,
Francesco Nardi +7 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome and gene rearrangements in a gall wasp species, Dryocosmus liui (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Cynipidae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) have been widely used in comparative and evolutionary genomics, molecular evolution, phylogenetics, and population genetics, but very limited information is available for the family Cynipidae.
Cheng-Yuan Su +4 more
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New species of Idris Förster (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) from southeast Asia, parasitoids of the eggs of pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2018 Four new species of the genus Idris Förster (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea), reared from the eggs of pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) in southeast Asia are described on the basis of external morphology and the barcode region of the mitochondrial COI ...
Norman F. Johnson +2 more
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Systematics of Scelioninae (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea): new synonymy, distribution, and species [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2019 The genera Doddiella Kieffer, 1913 and Aratala Dodd, 1927 are treated as junior synonyms of of Aneuroscelio Kieffer, 1913 following study of the rediscovered holotype of the type species Aneuroscelio rufipes Kieffer, 1913 (syn. nov.).
Norman F. Johnson +2 more
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The mitochondrial genome of Vulgichneumon sp. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019 The Vulgichneumon sp. belongs to the subfamily Ichneumoninae of Ichneumonidae. The mitogenome (GenBank accession number: MN178162) of Vulgichneumon sp. was sequenced, the first representative of the mitogenome of the subfamily.
Yimeng Chen +3 more
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A checklist of Platygastridae and Scelionidae (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) of Iran [PDF]
Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 2023 Iranian species of the superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) belonging to two families Platygastridae, (12 genera, 35 species) and Scelionidae (13 genera, 46 species), are reviewed.
Ehsan Rakhshani, Elijah J. Talamas
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Review of the genus Sparasion Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Sparasionidae) of the Oriental region with descriptions of new species from India [PDF]
BMC Zoology, 2023 Background The genus Sparasion, endoparasitoids of Tettigoniidae, occur in the Nearctic, Palearctic, Afrotropical and Oriental regions. It is absent in the Neotropics and Australasia.
Kamalanathan Veenakumari +6 more
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Janzenella theia Bremer & Talamas (Platygastroidea, Janzenellidae): a new species from Baltic amber [PDF]
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2021 A new species, Janzenella theia Bremer & Talamas, sp. nov., is described from Baltic amber, which is the second known species of the family Janzenellidae (Platygastroidea).
Jonathan Bremer +2 more
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