Omphale Cornula
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''Omphale cornula'' is a species of wasp in the family
Eulophidae The Eulophidae is a large family of hymenopteran insects, with over 4,300 described species in some 300 genera. The family includes the genus '' Elasmus'', which used to be treated as a separate family, "Elasmidae", and is now treated as a subfa ...
. It is known from western Europe (France, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Denmark, and Sweden). The body length is in males and in females. The host is unknown but other ''Omphale'' are
parasitoid In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host (biology), host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionarily stable str ...
s of gall midges (
Cecidomyiidae Cecidomyiidae is a family of diptera, flies known as gall midges or gall gnats. As the name implies, the larvae of most gall midges feed within plant tissue, creating abnormal plant growths called galls. Cecidomyiidae are very fragile small in ...
).


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Eulophidae Hymenoptera of Europe Insects described in 2012 {{Vespidae-stub