Elasmus

Elasmus
Elasmus male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Eulophidae
Subfamily: Elasminae
Genus: Elasmus
Westwood, 1833
Type species
Elasmus flabellatus
(Fonscolombe, 1832)
Species

>210 species

Synonyms
  • Aneure Nees, 1834
  • Heptacondyla Rondani, 1877
  • Cyclopleura Cameron, 1913
  • Austelasmus Riek, 1967

The genus Elasmus is the only member of the hymenopteran subfamily Elasminae (formerly classified as a separate family, Elasmidae), and contains over 200 species worldwide. They are mostly parasitoids or hyperparasitoids of lepidopteran larvae, though several species are parasitoids of Polistes paper wasp larvae. Some authorities now place Elasmus in the subfamily Eulophinae.[1]

  1. ^ "Taxon record Elasmus Westwood, 1833". Universal Chalcidoidea Database. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 25 June 2017.