''Diphyus'' is a genus of parasitoid
wasps
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. Th ...
belonging to the family
Ichneumonidae
The Ichneumonidae, also known as ichneumon wasps, ichneumonid wasps, ichneumonids, or Darwin wasps, are a family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera. They are one of the most diverse groups within the Hymenoptera with roughly 25 ...
.
The genus was first described in 1890 by
Joseph Kriechbaumer.
(In the contents, the new genus is listed as ''Diphyes'', a genus name which had already been used (1817) in the animal kingdom for a
cnidarian
Cnidaria ( ) is a phylum under kingdom Animalia containing over 11,000 species of aquatic invertebrates found both in fresh water, freshwater and marine environments (predominantly the latter), including jellyfish, hydroid (zoology), hydroids, ...
genus, but in the text he described the genus ''Diphyus''. He immediately follows this description with a description of ''Diphyes tricolo''r,
which he references later in 1891 with the name ''Diphyus tricolor''.
Thus, the species is ''Diphyus tricolor''.
The genus has almost an
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 ...
.
Some species:
*
''Diphyus akaashii'' (Uchida, 1955)
* ''
Diphyus adventor''
(Berthoumieu, 1892)
* ''
Diphyus albicoxalis''
(Uchida, 1927)
* ''
Diphyus duodecimguttorius''
(Uchida, 1955)
*''
Diphyus higebutonis''
* ''
Diphyus iwatai''
* ''
Diphyus palliatorius''
* ''
Diphyus quadripunctorius''
* ''
Diphyus restitutor''
(Wesmael, 1859)
* ''
Diphyus salicatorius''
(Gravenhorst, 1820)
*''
Diphyus suigensis'' (
*''
Diphyus tricolor''
Kriechbaumer, 1890
*''
Diphyus temmazanensis''
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q3028865
Ichneumonidae
Ichneumonidae genera
Taxa named by Joseph Kriechbaumer