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Key to northern European Mymaridae
Mymaridae
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Taxa:
Metasoma
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Metasoma with a long petiole formed of two segments.
Metasoma with a petiole formed of a single segment.
Metasoma more or less sessile, petiole practically absent.
Tarsi
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Tarsi with 5 segments.
Tarsi with 4 segments.
Female antennae
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Female antennae with 8 segments.
Female antennae with 9 segments.
Female antennae with 10 segments.
Female antennae with 11 segments.
Male antennae
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Male antennae with 10 segments.
Male antennae with 11 segments.
Male antennae with 12 segments.
Male antennae with 13 segments.
Fore wings
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Fore wings paddle-like, long-stalked and with a microscopic honeycombed surface sculpture.
Fore wings paddle-like, very long-stalked and without surface sculpture.
Fore wing not very paddle-like or stalked. Marginal vein much longer than the submarginal vein, usually reaching the midpoint of the wing.
Fore wing not very paddle-like or stalked. Marginal vein shorter than the submarginal vein, usually not reaching the midpoint of the wing.
Wings reduced.
Wing color
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Tip of fore wing distinctly darkened.
Tip of fore wing not darkened.
Wing pilosity 1
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Fore wing with two oblique lines of hairs, one originating from the marginal vein and one from the end of the marginal vein.
Fore wing without oblique lines of hairs originating from the marginal vein and the end of the marginal vein.
Scape
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Scape with a distinct scale-like sculpture.
Scape without distinct scale-like sculpture.
Petiole shape
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Petiole short, at most slightly longer than wide.
Petiole elongate, much longer than wide.
Pronotum
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Lateral lobes of pronotum widely separated by lightly sclerotized median area. Dorsellum strap-shaped.
Lateral lobes of pronotum not separated by lightly sclerotized median area. Dorsellum rhomboidal or triangular.
Wing pilosity 2
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Fore wing with bare area behind marginal vein. Hairs at least mostly absent behind base of marginal vein.
Fore wing more or less evenly setose behind marginal vein.
2nd flagellomere
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2nd flagellomere very short, ring-like and easily missed.
2nd flagellomere normal, at least as long as wide.
Remaining taxa:
Alaptus
Anagrus
Anaphes
Arescon
Camptoptera
Cleruchus
Cosmocomoidea
Dicopus
Erythmelus
Eustochus
Eustochus (Eustochus)
Gonatocerus
Litus
Lymaenon
Macrocamptoptera
Mymar
Mymaromma anomalum (Mymarommatidae)
Ooctonus
Ooctonus hemipterus
Polynema
Stephanodes
Stethynium
Discarded taxa:
Info
References
Finlands Artdatacenter (2025). Mymaridae. LAJI.FI. Retrieved May 20, 2025.
https://laji.fi/en/taxon/MX.289232
Huber, J.T., Read, J.D. & Triapitsyn, S.V. (2020). Illustrated key to genera and catalogue of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) in America north of Mexico. Zootaxa 4773(1).
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4773.1.1
Peck, O., Bouček, Z. & Hoffer, A. (1964). Keys to the Chalcidoidea of Czechoslovakia (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 96(S34): 7–121.
https://doi.org/10.4039/entm9634fv
SLU Artdatabanken (2025). Mymaridae. Artfakta. Retrieved May 20, 2025.
https://artfakta.se/taxa/2001145
Triapitsyn, S.V. & Berezovskiy, V.V. (2001). Review of the Mymaridae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) of Primorskii Krai: Genus
Mymar
Curtis. Far Eastern Entomologist 100: 1–20.
Triapitsyn, S.V. (2012). Revision of
Macrocamptoptera
Girault, 1910 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Mymaridae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie B für Botanik und Zoologie 113: 95–107.
Triapitsyn, S.V. (2013). Review of
Gonatocerus
(Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in the Palaearctic region, with notes on extralimital distributions. Zootaxa 3644(1).
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3644.1.1
Key to northern European Mymaridae
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