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Aphelinus

Aphelinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Clade: Euarthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Aphelinidae
Tribe: Aphelinini
Genus: Aphelinus
Dalman, 1820
Type species
Aphelinus abdominalis
(Dalman, 1820)

Aphelinus is a genus of parasitoid wasps. Several of the species are important because they parasitize agricultural pests, such as the soybean aphid (aphelinus certus) or the Russian wheat aphid -Diuraphis noxia - (A. albipodus Hayat & Fatima, A. asychis Walker, and A. varipes (Foerster).

About 100 species have been described.



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