| Diphyus | |
|---|---|
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| Diphyus castanopyga | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Ichneumonidae |
| Subfamily: | Ichneumoninae |
| Genus: | Diphyus Kriechbaumer, 1890 |
Diphyus is a genus of parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Ichneumonidae. [1]
The genus was first described in 1890 by Joseph Kriechbaumer. [1] [2] (In the contents, the new genus is listed as Diphyes, a genus name which had already been used (1817) [3] in the animal kingdom for a cnidarian genus, but in the text he described the genus Diphyus. He immediately follows this description with a description of Diphyes tricolor, [2] which he references later in 1891 with the name Diphyus tricolor. [4] Thus, the species is Diphyus tricolor. [2] [5]
The genus has almost an cosmopolitan distribution. [1]
Some species:
- Diphyus akaashii (Uchida, 1955) [6]
- Diphyus adventor (Berthoumieu, 1892) [1]
- Diphyus albicoxalis (Uchida, 1927) [1]
- Diphyus duodecimguttorius (Uchida, 1955) [7]
- Diphyus higebutonis (Uchida, 1955) [8]
- Diphyus iwatai [9] (Uchida, 1955)
- Diphyus palliatorius [10] (Gravenhorst, 1829) [1]
- Diphyus quadripunctorius [10]
- Diphyus restitutor (Wesmael, 1859) [11]
- Diphyus salicatorius (Gravenhorst, 1820) [12]
- Diphyus suigensis (Uchida, 1927) [13]
- Diphyus tricolor (Kim, 1955) [14] Kriechbaumer, 1890 [5]
- Diphyus temmazanensis (Uchida, 1955) [15]