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Orasema Cameron

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Eucharitidae; Subfamily: Oraseminae)

Orasema Cameron 1884. Type species: Orasema stramineipes Cameron

 

  Orasema communis Risbec, 1952
  Orasema fraudulenta (Reichensperger, 1913)
  Orasema glabra Heraty, 1994
  Orasema monomoria Heraty, 2000
  Orasema nigra Heraty, 1994
  Orasema seyrigi Risbec, 1952
  Orasema striatosoma Heraty, 1994

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Parasitoids of ant larvae in the genera: Monomorium, Pheidole, Solenopsis, Tetramorium and Wasmannia (Myrmycinae); and possibly Formica (Formicinae).

Reference

Heraty, J.M. 1994. Classification and evolution of the Oraseminae in the Old World, including revision of two closely related genera of Eucharitinae (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae). Life Sciences Contributions, Royal Ontario Museum. 157:vii+174pp.

 

Heraty, J.M. 2002. A revision of the genera of Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the World. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 68: 1-359.

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