Aphelinus | |
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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.