Foenatopus

Foenatopus
Foenatopus alutaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Stephanidae
Subfamily:	Stephaninae
Genus:	Foenatopus Smith, 1861
Type species
Stephanus indicus Westwood, 1841

Foenatopus is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the family Stephanidae; it includes about half of the species in this family. They are mostly found tropical and subtropical regions within the Afrotropical, Neotropical, Palaearctic and Indomalayan realms. ^[1] Little is known of their biology, but they are thought to be parasites (solitary idiobiont ectoparasitoids) of wood-boring insect larvae (mainly beetle larvae of the Cerambycidae and Buprestidae). ^[2]

Most of the described species are listed in Aguiar (2004). ^[3]

References

1. Ge, Sixun; Ren, Lili; Tan, Jiangli (2021). "Description of a new species of Foenatopus Smith (Hymenoptera, Stephanidae), with a key to the species from Vietnam". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 88: 71–83. doi: 10.3897/jhr.88.76421 .
2. Binoy, C.; Van Achterberg, C.; Kumar, P. Girish; Santhosh, S.; Sheela, S. (2020). "A review of Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea) from India, with the description of five new species". Zootaxa. 4838 (1): 1–51. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4838.1.1.
3. Aguiar, Alexandre P. (2004). "World catalog of the Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea)". Zootaxa. 753 (1): 1–120. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.753.1.1.