| Foenatopus | |
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| 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]