Ismarus (wasp)
Ismarus is a genus of wasps belonging to the family Ismaridae, and presently the sole extant genus in the family (a second genus was recently removed[1]). About 50 species are known in this small relictual group, all of which appear to be hyperparasitoids that parasitize Dryinidae (that attack leafhoppers).
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Ismarus was formerly included in the family Diapriidae, but differ from diapriid wasps by lacking a facial projection from which the antenna arise, and characterized by various degrees of fusion of the metasomal terga.[2]
References
- V. Kolyada & V. Chemyreva (2016) Revision Of Species Of The Genus Ismarus Haliday, 1835 (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea: Ismaridae) Of The Russian Fauna. Far Eastern Entomologist 318: 1-19.
- Chang-Jun Kim, Robert Copland & David Notton (2018) The family Ismaridae Thomson (Hymenoptera, Diaprioidea): first record for the Afrotropical region with description of fourteen species new to science. African Invertebrates 59(2):127-163.
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