Mymarommatidae, new family and superfamily of parasitoid wasps for Corsica (Hymenoptera, Mymarommatoidea)

Abstract

We report for the first time the presence of the family Mymarommatidae from Corsica. During the La Planète Revisitée expedition to Haute-Corse in July 2021, three specimens of Mymaromma anomalum (Blood & Kryger), within Mymarommatidae (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea), were collected in Carrataghju near Porto-Vecchio. Other individuals of this species had already been captured in Corsica in 1997-1998 in the Fango Valley, as well as in Vaucluse, at the foot of Mount Ventoux (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur), but remained unstudied until the present. We summarize information on the superfamily Mymarommatoidea and the family Mymarommatidae, as well as on Mymaromma anomalum, one of the two species known from Europe and the only one reported so far from many European countries.