Orthopelma is a Holarctic genus of parasitics wasp. It is the only genus within the Ichneumonidae subfamily Orthopelmatinae. They are idiobiont endoparasitoids of cynipid galls on Rosaceae. Mostly Orthopelma are associated with Diplolepis on Rosa, but have recorded from Diastrophus on Rubus in the Nearctic.
Species
The species in the genus Orthopelma include 13 extant species and one extinct species:
- Orthopelma aobing <small>Hu, Zhang, Dal Pos, McCormark & Fang, 2025</small>
- Orthopelma brevicorne <small>Morley, 1907</small>
- Orthopelma californicum <small>Ashmead, 1890</small>
- Orthopelma caucasicum <small>Kasparyan, 2011</small>
- Orthopelma chinensis <small>Zhang, 2025</small>
- â Orthopelma curvitibialis <small>Statz, 1936</small>
- Orthopelma dodecameron <small>Kasparyan, 2011</small>
- Orthopelma japonicum <small>Kusigemati, 1974</small>
- Orthopelma mediator <small>(Thunberg, 1822)</small>
- Orthopelma mukriyana <small>Riedel, 2024</small>
- Orthopelma occidentale <small>Ashmead, 1890</small>
- Orthopelma ovale <small>(Provancher, 1874)</small>
- Orthopelma simile <small>Kusigemati, 1974</small>
- Orthopelma superbum <small>Kasparyan, 1984</small>
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