Chalcidoidea of the World

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Edited by John Heraty and James Woolley

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December 2024

9781800623521

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The superfamily Chalcidoidea (the jewel wasps) are part of the insect order Hymenoptera. The superfamily comprises more than 27,000 known species, with an estimated total diversity of more than 500,000 species, meaning that the vast majority have yet to be discovered and described. Most of the species are parasitoids, attacking the egg, larval stage or pupal stage of their host, though many other life cycles are known including gall associates and fig pollinators.

This landmark volume has been co-authored by world authorities on the systematics and biology of chalcidoid wasps. It provides an introduction to the superfamily, a review of chalcidoid morphology, an overview of the fossil record, a phylogenetic framework for the revised classification of the superfamily, an identification key for the 50 recognized families, and detailed treatments of the individual families.

The book consolidates much recent research on the phylogenomics of Chalcidoidea and the fossil record. This research has resulted in substantial changes to their classification, and in a review of all families, the new family groups are presented to the general scientific public for the first time. The book is an historic milestone, presenting a reclassification of the superfamily and a synthesis of knowledge on all aspects of Chalcidoidea that will serve for generations to come.

Individual chapters clarify the limits of families and subfamilies based on contemporary phylogenetic studies. These chapters provide for each family: diagnostic features and extensively illustrated details of their specialized morphology, summaries of their distribution and worldwide diversity, a history of their classification history and major workers, phylogenetic relationships, natural history, use in biological control and economic impact, fossil history, and fully illustrated identification keys to subfamilies or in some cases to genera.

Additional chapters present best practices for collecting, rearing from hosts, and preservation, review digital resources currently available, explore the diversity of their natural history and their human impacts, such as their use and importance to biological and natural control of pest arthropods. Chapters by worldwide authorities explore the enormous biological diversity of chalcidoid wasps including consequences of their almost unbelievable miniaturization (the most extreme known in insects), relationships with endosymbionts, special aspects of genetics, genomics, evolutionary biology and development, and brief accounts of the most significant chalcidoid researchers that have passed.

For many years to come this important book will serve the needs of hymenopterists and professional entomologists, taxonomists and systematists, entomologists working on parasitic wasps as biological control agents, and ecologists working on parasite-host interactions.

Part 1
Introduction to Chalcidoidea--Jim Woolley, John Heraty
Morphology, including new advances in methods for morphology--Gary Gibson, Lars Krogmann, Roger Burks
Phylogenetic Relationships and Classification of Chalcioidea--John Heraty, Roger Burks, Gary Gibson, Astrid Cruaud, Jim Woolley, Ralph Peters, Lars Krogmann, Elizabeth Murray, Jean-Yves Rasplus
Fossils and Evolutionary History--Lars Krogmann, Roger Burks, John Heraty, Alex Gumovsky
Key to Families--Jean-Yves Rasplus, Roger Burks, Gerard Delvare, Mircea Mitroiu
Diversinitidae--Michael Haas
Leptoomidae--Lucian Fusu, Gary Gibson
Mymaridae--Serguei Triapitsyn, John Huber, Krissy Dominguez
Baeomorphidae--John Huber, John Heraty, Alex Gumovsky,Lars Krogmann
Eunotidae--Roger Burks, Mircea Mitroiu, Jean-Yves Rasplus
Encyrtidae--Jim Woolley, John Noyes, Jason Mottern
Aphelinidae--Andy Polaszek, John Heraty, Jim Woolley, Jason Mottern, Luke Kresslein
Neodiparidae--Jean-Yves Rasplus, Mircea Mitroiu
Azotidae--Jim Woolley, Andy Polaszek, Ana Dal Molin
Signiphoridae--Jim Woolley, Anamaria Dal Molin, Andy Polaszek
Idioporidae--Jean-Yves Rasplus, Roger Burks
Calesidae--Jason Mottern, Andy Polaszek
Trichogrammatidae--John Pinto, Roger Burks
Eulophidae--Roger Burks, Mike Gates, Alex Gumovsky, Christer Hansson
Herbertiidae--Roger Burks
Pirenidae--Mircea Mitroiu, Roger Burks
Systasidae--Mircea Mitroiu, Roger Burks
Tetracampidae--Roger Burks, Serguei Triapitsyn, Alex Gumovsky
Diparidae--Jean-Yves Rasplus, Simon van Noort
Neanastatidae--Gary Gibson, Lucian Fusu, Gerard Delvare,Roger Burks
Epichrysomallidae--Rasplus, Burks, van Noort
Ormyridae--Paul Hanson, Petr Janšta, Madalina Viciriuc, Mircea Mitroiu, Simon van Noort
Cynipencyrtidae—Gary Gibson, John Herary
Melanosomellidae--Jean-Yves Rasplus, Roger Burks, Simon van Noort
Tanaostigmatidae--Gary Gibson, van Noort
Torymidae--Petr Janšta, Gerard Delvare
Cerocephalidae--Jean-Yves Rasplus, Lars Krogmann, Roger Burks
Spalangiidae --Jean-Yves Rasplus, Mircea Mitroiu
Chrysolampidae--Chris Darling, John Heraty
Eutrichosomatidae--Austin Baker, John Heraty, Chris Darling
Perilampidae--Chris Darling
Eucharitidae--John Heraty, Elizabeth Murray Austin Baker, Javier Torrens
Ceidae--Jean-Yves Rasplus, Mircea Mitroiu, Roger Burks
Pteromalidae--Steve Heydon, Jean-Yves Rasplus, Gary Gibson, Hannes Baur, Lars Krogmann, Ralph Peters, Roger Burks, Mircea Mitroiu, Simon van Noort, Petr Jansta
Eupelmidae--Gary Gibson, Lucian Fusu
Heydeniidae—Gary Gibson
Metapelmatidae--Lucian Fusu
Macromesidae--Roger Burks
Cleonymidae--Gary Gibson, Jean-Yves Rasplus, Gerard Delvare
Megastigmidae--Petr Janšta, Jean-Yves Rasplus,
Moranilidae--Roger Burks, Jean-Yves Rasplus
Lyciscidae--Gary Gibson, Roger Burks, Jean-Yves Rasplus
Hetreulophidae--Roger Burks, Jean-Yves Rasplus
Coelocybidae—Roger Burks, Rasplus
Ooderidae--Ralph Peters, Gary Gibson
Boucekiidae--Gibson
Agaonidae--Jean Yves Rasplus, Simon Van Noort, Astrid Cruaud
Leucospidae--Priscilla Dias, Chris Darling
Pelecinellidae--Roger Burks, Jean-Yves Rasplus
Chalcidectidae--Gary Gibson
Eurytomidae--Mike Gates, Gerard Delvare
Chalcididae--Gerard Delvare
Incertae Sedis taxa--Roger Burks

Part 2
Biodiversity and Bioinformatics and digital resources--Matt Yoder, Ana Dal Molin
Collecting and Preservation--John Heraty, John S. Noyes, Mike Gates, Fusu
Biology, Natural History and Behavior--John Heraty, Gary Gibson, Alex Gumovsky, John Noyes, Paul Hanson, Petr Jansta
Endosymbionts--Marco Gebiola, Molly Hunter
Size of Chalcidoidea and Miniaturization--Alexey Polilov
Genetics and Genomics--Jack Werren, Keith Hopper, Amelia Lindsey
Speciation in Chalcidoids--Keith Hopper
Chalcidoidea and Biological Control--Roy Van Driesche, John Noyes, Matthew Locke
Chalcidoidea as Hyperparasitoids--Judith Herreid
Future Directions in Chalcidology--John Heraty, Jim Woolley, Matt Yoder
Historical chalcidologists--Natalie Dale-Skey
Species diagnosis and description—Astrid Cruaud, Woolley, Rasplus, Fusu, Mitroiu, Dal Molin, Baur
Internal Morphology--Istvan Miko, Roger Burks, Jonah Ulmer
Immature Stages of Chalcioidea--John Heraty

John Heraty

John Heraty is Professor of Entomology in the Department of Entomology at the University of California, Riverside.

James Woolley

Jim Woolley is Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University.

systematics; insect taxonomy; insect ecology; host-parasitoid relationships; parasitic wasps; parasitoids; biological control; natural enemies; pest management; integrated pest management; IPM; distribution records; chalcidoidea; chalcid wasps