Dryinidae Temporal range:
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Gonatopus alpinus female | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Superfamily: | Chrysidoidea |
Family: | Dryinidae Haliday, 1833 |
Subfamilies | |
Anteoninae |
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.[citation needed] The larvae are parasitoids of the nymphs and adults of Auchenorrhyncha.[1] Dryinidae comprises over 1900 described species, distributed in 11 extant subfamilies and 57 genera.[2][3][4]