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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 genera with 1,400 species. Fairyflies are very tiny insects, like most chalcidoid wasps
The Mymarommatoidea are a very small superfamily of microscopic fairyfly-like parasitic wasps. It contains only a single living family, Mymarommatidae, and three other extinct families known from Cretaceous aged amber. Less than half of all described species are living taxa (the others are fossils), but they are known from all parts of the world.
Tinkerbella is a genus of fairy wasps, containing the single species Tinkerbella nana from Costa Rica. It is one of the smallest known flying arthropods and belongs to the family Mymaridae . [ 1 ]
The Mymarommatidae, sometimes referred to as false fairy wasps, are a very small family of microscopic parasitic wasps. Only about half of the known species are living taxa (the others are fossils), but they are found worldwide.
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Polynema is a genus of fairyflies or fairy wasps, insects in the family Mymaridae. [2] Species. Polynema includes over 200 species of ...
Megaphragma mymaripenne is a very small wasp.At 200 μm (1 ⁄ 5 mm; 1 ⁄ 125 inch) in length, it is the third-smallest extant insect, [1] comparable in size to some single-celled organisms.
Wasps may emerge in large numbers in the spring, forming clouds which are a nuisance to humans. [2] In Australia and Israel members of the genus of fairy wasps, Stethynium, were being investigated in 2006 as possible biological control agents for Ophelimus maskelli. [3]