Ismarus (wasp)

Ismarus
	Ismarus dorsiger illustration from British Entomology
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Ismaridae
Genus:	Ismarus; Haliday, 1835
Species
	~50 species

Ismarus is a genus of wasps belonging to the family Ismaridae. About 50 species are known in this small relictual group, all of which appear to be hyperparasitoids that parasitize Dryinidae (that attack leafhoppers).

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]

Taxonomy

Its parent family, Ismaridae, previously included two genera, Ismarus and Szelenyioprioides^[3], but the latter genus was synonymized with the diapriid genus Spilomicrus.^[4]

Gallery

Ismarus africanus
Ismarus nigrofasciatus
Ismarus notaulicus
Ismarus steineri

References

^ Kolyada, V. & Chemyreva, V. (2016). "Revision Of Species Of The Genus Ismarus Haliday, 1835 (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea: Ismaridae) Of The Russian Fauna". Far Eastern Entomologist. 318: 1–19. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
^ Kim, Chang-Jun; Copland, Robert & Notton, David (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. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.59.24403. hdl:10141/622418.
^ Liu, J., Chen, H., & Xu, Z. (2011). Notes on the genus Ismarus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) from China. ZooKeys, (108), 49–60. Advance online publication. http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.108.768
^ 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.

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[KolyChem16-1] Kolyada, V. & Chemyreva, V. (2016). "Revision Of Species Of The Genus Ismarus Haliday, 1835 (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea: Ismaridae) Of The Russian Fauna". Far Eastern Entomologist. 318: 1–19. Retrieved 2021-09-05.

[KimCoplNott18-2] Kim, Chang-Jun; Copland, Robert & Notton, David (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. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.59.24403. hdl:10141/622418.

[3] Liu, J., Chen, H., & Xu, Z. (2011). Notes on the genus Ismarus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) from China. ZooKeys, (108), 49–60. Advance online publication. http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.108.768

[4] 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.

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