The project is a bilateral collaboration between the Research Group on the Invertebrate Diversity and Phylogenetics from the Faculty of Biology of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi and the Sophia Agrobiotech Institute in Sophia-Antipolis. It is financed through the Brîncuşi-Hubert Curien partnership between Romania and France, grant no. 89BM/2017.

The results of this project are newly generated data and finalising the analysis of those accumulated during a long collaboration between the laboratory of Invertebrate Diversity and Phylogenetics and the Sophia Agrobiotech Institute that started in 2012. In this context we genetically analysed almost 1000 Torymus specimens in order to estimate the genetic diversity of the French populations of Torymus sinensis in France and establish if it is usable for eventual new introductions into other EU states. We also analysed the possibility of the hybridisation Torymus sinensis and native species of Torymus, concluding that this is not happening and is unlikely to take place in the future. For the genus Ormyrus we analysed over 100 specimens for several nuclear and mitochondrial genes, and the results of molecular species delimitations estimate between five and 33 species instead of two currently recognised species. For the genus Eupelmus we finalised the analyses for a multilocus phylogeny and completed the matrix with most of the missing loci and essential species. The topology of the recovered phylogeny is almost completely resolved, and we have a good concordance with the current subgeneric classification based on morphology.

The results that we obtained do not have a direct economic value, but they are creating a stable and predictive taxonomic framework for the biological control. The data generated from this collaboration will also serve for a PhD thesis on the parasitoids of gall wasps and an undergraduate thesis on some egg parasitoids of the true bugs.