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Helorus (wasp)

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Helorus
Temporal range: Eocene–Recent
Helorus anomalipes
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Heloridae
Genus: Helorus
Latreille, 1802

Helorus is a genus of parasitic wasps. It is the only living genus in the family Heloridae. There are about 12 described species in Helorus, found worldwide[1] Members of the genus are parasitic on green lacewings.[2] The oldest fossils are from Eocene aged Baltic amber.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ IZADIZADEH, MOHAMMAD; TALEBI, ALI ASGHAR; ACHTERBERG, CORNELIS VAN; RAKHSHANI, EHSAN (2015-04-13). "First record of the family Heloridae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) from Iran, with description of a new species". Zootaxa. 3946 (4): 577–582. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3946.4.6. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25947710.
  2. ^ Muona, Jyrki (2020-08-31). "Helorus arturi sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea, Heloridae) from Baltic amber". Palaeoentomology. 3 (4): 347–351. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.4.4. hdl:10138/325278. ISSN 2624-2834. S2CID 225263402.