''Aphelopus'' is a genus of
insect
Insects (from Latin ') are Hexapoda, hexapod invertebrates of the class (biology), class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (Insect morphology#Head, head, ...
s belonging to the family
Dryinidae
Dryinidae is a cosmopolitan family of solitary wasps. Its name comes from the Greek ''drys'' for oak: Latreille named the type genus '' Dryinus'' because the first species was collected on an oak tree in Spain. The larvae are parasitoids of the ...
.
It is recognizable by only one costal cell surrounded by pigmented veins.
The genus was first described by Dalman in 1823,
and has
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en ...
.
Species
Species:
* ''
Aphelopus atratus'' (Dalman, 1823)
*''
Aphelopus bennettii'' (Olmi 2004)
*''
Aphelopus camus'' (Richards 1939)
*''
Aphelopus koreanus'' (Olmi 2009)
*''
Aphelopus luteoceps'' (Xu & He 1999)
*''
Aphelopus maetoi'' (Olmi 1995)
References
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Dryinidae
Hymenoptera genera