''Diospilus'' is a genus of
insects
Insects (from Latin ') are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed ...
belonging to the family
Braconidae
The Braconidae are a family of parasitoid wasps. After the closely related Ichneumonidae, braconids make up the second-largest family in the order Hymenoptera, with about 17,000 recognized species and many thousands more undescribed. One analysis ...
.
They more specifically belong to the subfamily
Brachistinae
Brachistinae is a subfamily of braconid wasps in the family Braconidae.
Taxonomy and phylogeny
The genera of Brachistinae were formerly classified as tribes under the subfamily Helconinae. The tribe Blacini was split into a separate subfamily, ...
.
The genus 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:
* ''
Diospilus abbreviator'' (Schiodte, 1839)
* ''
Diospilus acourti'' Cockerell, 1921
* ''
Diospilus adustior'' Papp, 2012
* ''
Diospilus assimulatus'' Papp, 2013
* ''
Diospilus belokobylskiji'' Beyarslan, 2008
* ''
Diospilus capito'' (
Nees
Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (14 February 1776 – 16 March 1858) was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. ...
, 1834)
* ''
Diospilus curticaudis'' Gahan, 1927
* ''
Diospilus sisyphus'' Sánchez, Figueroa and Sharkey 2012
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* '' Diospilus sulphureus'' Papp, 2012]
References
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Braconidae
Braconidae genera
Taxa named by Alexander Henry Haliday