Chalcidoidea Presentation: Michael Gates - The HYM Course

Agaonidae◊◊◊Diverse: > 640 spp.• Hosts: Figs, parasitic. Non-pollinating and pollinatingfig wasps.Females of Agaoninae: exserted ovipositor and forward-projectinghead with mandibles modified with a rasplike appendage.Sycoryctinae, Sycophaginae, , and Epichrysomallinae (females):forewing venation with stigmal vein subequal to marginal vein (or ifsessile, the postmarginal vein is absent), and the stigmal vein isnearly right-angled from the marginal vein. Agaonids rarely have anoccipital carina, which helps distinguish them from most Torymidae.Males of many species are wingless and highly modified beingdefinitely y bizarre among chalcidoids and distinguished from them byhabitus.Blastophaga sp.