Eupelmidae - 30 Species, Identification & Facts

Anastatus semiflavidus

Reported as an egg parasitoid of coreid and pentatomid bugs as well as saturniid moths. [comment by Gary Gibson] Also parasitizes mantid egg cases. [comment by Ross Hill]

Balcha indica

Identification: lateral habitus Its possible use as biocontrol of the emerald ash borer is being studied. "Although males are known from the Old World only females have been recovered in North America, indicating a parthenogenetic form was introduced

Brasema leucothysana

Identification: Female with dense, reflective, white setae on base of flagellum.

Brasema rhadinosa

Identification: "Females of this species are quite easily recognized in the genus based on their elongate-slender habitus and a forewing that has a longitudinal infuscate band (just visible in image)." -- Gary Gibson The species is quite common and w

Eupelmus dryohizoxeni

Identification: Wings of female naturally bent in an L-shape so that about the apical half sticks up vertically. Similar in habitus to another species, Eupelmus vesicularis (Retzius). In E. vesicularis the mesoscutum and scutellum are flat, but in E.

Eupelmus messene

Identification: Females are brachypterous. The reduced fore wings are bent upright at a right angle at the level of the base of the abdomen. One of the most ubiquitous eupelmids in North America. It is thought to have been introduced into N. Am. from

Zaischnopsis bouceki

Identification: "Dr. Gibson described in his synopsis of this genus females having the axillae and scutellum bicolored, and with a yellow ovipositor." [see Ross Hill's comment here ]