abstract:The Pteromalidae are a very large family of parasitic wasps, with some 3,450 described species in about 640 genera (the number was greater, but many species and genera have been reduced to synonymy in recent years). The subfamily-level divisions of the family are highly contentious and unstable, and the family unquestionably is completely artificial, composed of numerous, distantly related groups (polyphyletic).
There are 8species of parasitic wasps in the SoutheastMountains region, 2,1,3, and 2 species of which belong to Braconidae, Euritomidae, Pteromalidae, and Eupelmidae respectively.