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Parasitoid Wood Wasps
Orussidae
The Orussidae or the parasitic wood wasps represent a small family of sawflies ("Symphyta"). Currently, about 93 extant and four fossil species are known. They take a key position in phylogenetic analyses of Hymenoptera, because they form the sister taxon of the megadiverse apocritan wasps, and the common ancestor of Orussidae + Apocrita evolved parasitism for the first time in course of the evolution of the Hymenoptera. They are also the only sawflies with carnivorous larvae.
11 branches of this family, most-observed first
Orussus
genusOrussus
Guiglia
genusGuiglia
Chalinus
genusChalinus
Orussobaius
genusOrussobaius
Pseudoryssus
genusPseudoryssus
Ophrynopus
genusOphrynopus
Orussella
genusOrussella
Orussonia
genusOrussonia
Ophrella
genusOphrella
Leptorussus
genusLeptorussus
Mocsarya
genusMocsarya
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 204682.