Orasema

There are 111 species in this genus which are Parasitoids of ants.

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List of Orasema and their Host Ants

Genus and species	Author and Year	Ant Host	Distribution	Notes
Orasema acuminata	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Ecuador, Peru
Orasema alvarengai	Burks, Mottern & Heraty, 2015	ants	Amazonas and Mato Grosso
Orasema argentina	Gemignani, 1933	Pheidole nitidula	Argentina
Orasema arimbome	Dominguez, Burks & Heraty, 2018	ants	Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, Guatemala, Papua New Guinea
Orasema assectator	Kerrich, 1963	Pheidole	India
Orasema aureoviridis	Gahan, 1940	ants	United States: Texas
Orasema bablyi	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	United States
Orasema bakeri	Gahan, 1940	ants	United States:Colorado
Orasema beameri	Gahan, 1940	ants	United States: Colorado
Orasema brachycephala	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Brazil
Orasema brasiliensis	Brèthes, 1927	ants	Brazil, Viet Nam
Orasema caesariata	Burks, Mottern & Heraty, 2015	ants	Peru
Orasema cameroni	Howard, 1897	ants	Grenada
Orasema carchi	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Ecuador, Colombia, Peru
Orasema castilloae	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Mexico, United States
Orasema cerulea	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Honduras
Orasema chrysozona	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia
Orasema chunpi	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	Pheidole gibba	Brazil, Venezuela
Orasema cirrhocnemis	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Uruguay
Orasema cockerelli	Gahan, 1940	ants	United States: New Mexico
Orasema coloradensis	Wheeler, 1907	Pheidole bicarinata	United States: Colorado
Orasema costaricensis	Wheeler & Wheeler, 1937	Pheidole flavens	Dominica, Costa Rica, Saint Lucia, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Ecuador, United States: Florida
Orasema cozamalotl	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama
Orasema delhiensis	Narendran & Girish Kumar, 2005	ants	India
Orasema delicatula	(Walker, 1862)	ants	Brazil, Eucador, Peru, Panama, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela
Orasema deltae	Gemignani, 1937	ants	Argentina
Orasema dubitata	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	United States: Florida
Orasema erwini	Burks, Mottern & Heraty, 2015	ants	Brazil
Orasema evansi	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	United States, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua
Orasema festiva	(Fabricius, 1804)	ants	Brazil
Orasema fraudulenta	(Reichensperger, 1913)	Pheidole megacephala	Eritrea, Ethiopia
Orasema freychei	Gemignani, 1933	ants	Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia
Orasema gemignanii	De Santis, 1967	ants	Argentina
Orasema glabra	Heraty, 1994	ants	Tanzania
Orasema heacoxi	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	United States
Orasema hyarimai	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Trinidad and Tobago
Orasema initiator	Kerrich, 1963	ants	India
Orasema iridescens	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Argentina, Brazil
Orasema ishii	Heraty, 1994	ants	Taiwan
Orasema janzeni	Heraty & Baker, 2020	ants	Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Grenada
Orasema johnsoni	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Brazil, Uruguay
Orasema kaspi	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Peru
Orasema koghisiana	Heraty, 1994	ants	New Caledonia
Orasema kulli	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Costa Rica, Colombia
Orasema lasallei	Heraty & Baker, 2020	ants	Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua
Orasema llanthu	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Bolivia
Orasema llika	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Trinidad and Tobago
Orasema longinoi	Heraty & Baker, 2020	ants	Costa Rica, United States
Orasema masneri	Heraty & Baker, 2020	ants	Eccuador
Orasema masonicki	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Costa Rica
Orasema mati	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Guatemala
Orasema minuta	Ashmead, 1888	Pheidole. Temnothorax	United States: Florida
Orasema minutissima	Howard, 1894	Pheidole, Wasmannia	Dominica, Hawaii
Orasema mutata	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Costa Rica
Orasema nebula	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Ecuador
Orasema neomexicana	Gahan, 1940	ants	United States: New Mexico
Orasema nigra	Heraty, 1994	ants	Tanzania
Orasema nyamo	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Canada, Costa Rica, Panama
Orasema occidentalis	Ashmead, 1892	ants	United States: California
Orasema peckorum	Heraty & Baker, 2020	ants	Brazil
Orasema peraltai	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay
Orasema pirca	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador
Orasema pireta	Heraty, 1993	ants	Paraguay
Orasema pisi	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Argentina
Orasema polymyrmex	Baker & Heraty, 2020	Pheidole, Solenopsis	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador
Orasema psarops	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Venezuela
Orasema qillu	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Argentina
Orasema qincha	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Brazil, French Guiana
Orasema quadrimaculata	Herreid & Heraty, 2017	ants	Colombia
Orasema rapo	(Walker, 1839)	Eciton quadriglume	Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, Iceland, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
Orasema reburra	Burks, Mottern & Heraty, 2015	ants	Ecuador
Orasema rikra	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Peru, Brazil
Orasema robertsoni	Gahan, 1940	ants	United States: Florida
Orasema roppai	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Argentina, Brazil
Orasema salebrosa	Heraty, 1993	ants	Argentina
Orasema scaura	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	United States
Orasema simplex	Heraty, 1993	ants	Argentina
Orasema simulatrix	Gahan, 1940	Pheidole desertorum	United States: Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas
Orasema sixaolae	Wheeler & Wheeler, 1937	Solenopsis tenuis	Costa Rica
Orasema smithi	Howard, 1897	ants	Grenada
Orasema spyrogaster	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Brazil
Orasema stramineipes	Cameron, 1884	ants	Costa Rica
Orasema susanae	Gemignani, 1947	Pheidole	Argentina
Orasema synempora	Heraty, 1994	ants	Australia
Orasema taii	Chien & Heraty, 2018	Solenopsis xyloni	United States: Texas
Orasema taku	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Bolivia
Orasema tapi	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Brazil
Orasema texana	Gahan, 1940	ants	United States: Texas
Orasema tinalandia	Baker & Heraty, 2020	ants	Ecuador
Orasema tolteca	Mann, 1914	Pheidole hyatti	Mexico
Orasema torrensi	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Argentina
Orasema vasquezi	Heraty & Baker, 2020	ants	Colombia
Orasema vianai	Gemignani, 1937	ants	Argentina
Orasema violacea	Ashmead, 1888	ants	United States: Florida
Orasema viridis	Ashmead, 1895	Pheidole tepicana	United States: Arizona, Texas, Mexico
Orasema wayqecha	Herreid & Heraty, 2017	Pheidole alfaroi	Peru
Orasema wheeleri	Wheeler, 1907	Pheidole tepicana	United States
Orasema woolleyi	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Costa Rica, Mexico, Guadeloupe
Orasema worcesteri	(Girault, 1913)	Pheidole nitidula	Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
Orasema xanthopus	(Cameron, 1909)	Solenopsis invicta	Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru
Orasema yaax	Burks, Heraty & Dominguez, 2018	ants	Honduras
Orasema zahni	Herreid & Heraty, 2017	ants	United States: Arizona

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• Baker, A.J., Heraty, J.M., Mottern, J., Zhang, J., Hines, H.M., Lemmon, A.R. & Lemmon, E.M. (2020) Inverse dispersal patterns in a group of ant parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae: Oraseminae) and their ant hosts. Systematic Entomology, 45, 1–19.

• Brèthes, J. 1927. Hyménoptères Sud-Américains du deutches entomologisches institut: Terebrantia. Entomologische Mitteiliungen 16: 319-335.

• Burks, Roger A., John M. Heraty, Chrysalyn Dominguez & Jason L. Mottern. 2018. Complex diversity in a mainly tropical group of ant parasitoids: Revision of the Orasema stramineipes species group (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eucharitidae). Zootaxa 4401(1): 1–107.

• Burks, R. A., Jason L. Mottern & John M. Heraty. 2015. Revision of the Orasema festiva species group (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eucharitidae). Zootaxa 3972(4): 521–534.

• Chien, Iris & John Heraty. 2018. Come and gone: Description of a new species of Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera) attacking Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Texas. Insect Systematics and Diversity 2(1).

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