Helorus (wasp)

Helorus Temporal range: Eocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Helorus anomalipes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Heloridae
Genus:	Helorus Latreille, 1802

Helorus is a genus of parasitic wasps. It is the only living genus in the family Heloridae. There are about 12 described species in Helorus, found worldwide ^[1] Members of the genus are parasitic on green lacewings. ^[2] The oldest fossils are from Eocene aged Baltic amber. ^[3]

Species

• Helorus alborzicus Izadizadeh et al., 2015
• Helorus anomalipes (Panzer, 1798)
• Helorus australiensis New, 1975
• Helorus brethesi Ogloblin, 1928
• Helorus celebensis Achterberg, 2006
• Helorus elgoni Risbec, 1950
• Helorus nigripes Foerster, 1856
• Helorus niuginiae Naumann, 1983
• Helorus ruficornis Förster, 1856
• Helorus striolatus Cameron, 1906
• Helorus suwai Kusigemati, 1987
• Helorus yezoensis Kusigemati, 1987
• † Helorus arturi Muona, 2020
• † Helorus festivus Statz, 1938

References

1. "Helorus Genus Information". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
2. IZADIZADEH, MOHAMMAD; TALEBI, ALI ASGHAR; ACHTERBERG, CORNELIS VAN; RAKHSHANI, EHSAN (2015-04-13). "First record of the family Heloridae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) from Iran, with description of a new species" . Zootaxa. 3946 (4): 577–582. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3946.4.6. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   25947710.
3. Muona, Jyrki (2020-08-31). "Helorus arturi sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea, Heloridae) from Baltic amber". Palaeoentomology. 3 (4): 347–351. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.4.4. hdl: 10138/325278 . ISSN   2624-2834. S2CID   225263402.