Ormyridae

{{Short description|Family of wasp}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Ormyrus_sp-Chalcid-wasp-20100908b.jpg

| image_caption = Ormyrus sp.

| taxon = Ormyridae

| authority = Förster, 1856

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

Asparagobius

Eubeckerella

Halleriaphagus

Hemadas

Ormyrus

Ouma

}}

The Ormyridae are a small family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea. They are either parasitoids or hyperparasitoids on gall-forming insects,{{cite book | editor=Gibson, G.A.P. | editor2=Huber, J.T. | editor3=Woolley, J.B. | editor4=Woolley, J.B. | author5=National Research Council Canada | title=Annotated Keys to the Genera of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) | publisher=NRC Research Press | series=Monograph Publishing Program | year=1997 | isbn=978-0-660-16669-8 | chapter=Chapter 15. Ormyridae by Paul Hanson | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=50tXxazrCvoC&pg=PA531 | pages=531–533}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=50tXxazrCvoC&pg=PA532 p. 532] [https://books.google.com/books?id=50tXxazrCvoC&pg=PA533 p. 533] primarily cynipid wasps and tephritid flies. There are 153 species, mostly in the genus Ormyrus); the family has a worldwide distribution, although almost entirely absent from South America.

Some can be recognized by distinctive scalloped sculpturing of their metasomal tergites. Adults of many species are iridescent.{{Cite Q|Q115923766|doi-access=free}}