Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
This family, represented in every zoogeographical region, contains in excess of 70 genera and 600 species. Members of the subfamily Agaoninae are exclusively phytophagous. Most members of the Megastigminae are phytophagous, but a few parasitic species are known in Europe. The other subfamilies of Torymidae are largely parasitic, frequently on gall-forming insects. Hosts are reported in the Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and Orthoptera.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
