Helorus (wasp)
Appearance
Helorus Temporal range:
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Helorus anomalipes | |
Scientific classification | |
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]
Species
[edit]- Helorus alborzicus Izadizadeh et al., 2015
- Helorus anomalipes (Panzer, 1798)
- Helorus australiensis New, 1975
- Helorus brethesi Ogloblin, 1928
- Helorus celebensis Achterberg, 2006
- Helorus elgoni Risbec, 1950
- Helorus nigripes Foerster, 1856
- Helorus niuginiae Naumann, 1983
- Helorus ruficornis Förster, 1856
- Helorus striolatus Cameron, 1906
- Helorus suwai Kusigemati, 1987
- Helorus yezoensis Kusigemati, 1987
- † Helorus arturi Muona, 2020
- † Helorus festivus Statz, 1938
References
[edit]- ^ "Helorus Genus Information". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.