''Eupelmus'' 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

Eupelmidae Eupelmidae is a family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea. The larvae of the majority are primary parasitoids, commonly on beetle larvae, though many other hosts are attacked, including spiders. Details of the life history varies ...

. The genus has more than 300 species and a

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 include: * '' Eupelmus achreiodes'' Perkins, 1910 * '' Eupelmus acinellus'' Askew, 2009 * '' Eupelmus antipoda'' Ashmead, 1900 * '' Eupelmus niger'' Ashmead, 1901 - known parasitoid of '' Hylaeus anthracinus'' * ''

Eupelmus nihoaensis ''Eupelmus nihoaensis'', the Nihoan Eupelmus wasp, is a species of parasitic wasp endemic to the island of Nihoa, Hawaiian Islands. The species was described by Philip Hunter Timberlake in 1926. It is listed as " Imperiled" by NatureServe, for h ...

'' Timberlake, 1926 * '' Eupelmus vuilleti'' (Crawford, 1913)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3734558 Eupelmidae Hymenoptera genera Taxa named by Johan Wilhelm Dalman