Mymarommatidae
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The Mymarommatidae are a very small family of microscopic parasitic wasps. Only about half of the known species are living taxa, but they are found worldwide.
Mymaromella mira
Mymaromella mira holotype Nrs 2008 huber 001 006
Fairyfly
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The Mymaridae, commonly known as fairyflies or fairy wasps, are a family of chalcidoid wasps found in temperate, subtropical, and tropical regions throughout the world. The family contains around 100
Mymarommatidae
…ovipositors, entomologists assumed they were idiobiont parasitoids on the eggs of insects, similar to other extremely small parasitic wasps such as fairyflies. Psocoptera, long suspected as their hosts based on circumstantial evidence, was confirmed to be the hosts of at least some mymarommatids in 2022, after…
Mymar female
An illustration of the 'feather-winged' Mymar pulchellum by John Curtis, c. 1840
Mymarilla wollastoni: (1) Female exhibiting the extraordinarily densely hairy (setose) and domed forewings peculiar to the species. (2) Close-up of the thread-like antennae of a male. Mymarilla wollastoni is endemic to the island of Saint Helena in the southern Atlantic. Scale bar = 1 mm
Cremnomymar sp. (female) exhibiting the usual macropterous and flat wings of fairyflies. Scale bar = 1 mm