Opius nympha Fischer, 1968
Opius nympha: Fischer 1971: 92 (catalog); Wharton and Norrbom 2013: 16-19, 51-54 (key, diagnosis, distribution, hosts).
Opius (Thoracosema) nympha: Fischer 1977: 409–410, 436–437 (key, redescription); Yu et al. 2005, 2012 (electronic catalogs).
Fischer (1977) placed O. nympha in the subgenus Thoracosema Fischer, characterized by reduced propodeal sculpture. The precoxal sulcus is very weakly sculptured in a few of the specimens, and these would likely run instead to Phaedrotoma in Fischer (1977). Opius nympha also superficially resembles species in the Old World genus Psyttalia Walker, but differs in such characteristics as the lack of propodeal carinae medially and the presence of a hind wing m-cu in addition to lacking a short T2.
One of the samples yielded 28 flies and 5 braconids (15% parasitism by O. nympha).
There are no specimens currently determined for this OTU, or those specimens determined for this OTU are not yet mappable.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers DEB 0949027 and DEB 0328922 with REU supplement 1313933.
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