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Torymidae

[tȯ′rim·ə‚dē]
(invertebrate zoology)
A family of hymenopteran insects in the superfamily Chalcidoidea.
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For Restinga areas, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Maia and Azevedo (2009) verified that the great majority of micro-hymenoptera was parasitoid, but some of them, for example Tanaostigmatidae and few species of Torymidae and Eulophidae were inquilines of galls.
In Thailand, the native parasitoid Megastigmus thitipornae Doganlar & Hassan (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) is being studied (SANGTONGPRAOW; CHARERNSOM, 2013).
This parasitoid is Torymus sinensis Kamijo (Hymenoptera: Torymidae), which was used for biological control initially in Japan and the United States [19,20], followed by Italy [21], France, Slovenia, Croatia, and Hungary [15,22,23].
Las especies de la familia Ormyridae comparten algunos caracteres morfologicos con Torymidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), entre ellos el aspecto de la coxa posterior, la coloracion azul o verde metalica y la venacion alar.
0 Formicidae Crematogaster pilosa Emery 29 Monomorium minimum (Buckley) 0 Pseudomyrmex pallidus (Smith) 20 Mymaridae 4 Ormyridae 1 Pteromalidae 1 Torymidae 3 Trichogrammatidae 2 Lepidoptera Pyralidae 1 Diptera Carnidae Hemeromyia sp.
Parasitoids in the genus Monodontomerus (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) must oviposit in the cocoon of a late instar bee or wasp larva in order to develop to maturity (Eves, 1970).
(Hymenoptera: Torymidae) destacam-se como agentes de controle biologico de L.
Biological analogies between some fig-wasps (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae and Torymidae: Sycophaginae) and Varroa jacobsoni (Acari: Varroidae).
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