''Temelucha'' 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 ...

, with 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 ...

and over 200 constituent species.Santos, Alvaro Doria dos, Onody, Helena Carolina and Brandão, Carlos Roberto Ferreira. Diversity of Ophioniformes wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in a Central-West Brazilian Savanna area. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia nline 2021, v. 61 ccessed 30 November 2022 e20216145. doi:10.11606/1807-0205/2021.61.45

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{{Authority control Ichneumonidae Ichneumonidae genera Taxa named by Arnold Förster Cosmopolitan insects