Diphyus

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Diphyus is a genus of parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Ichneumonidae.[1]

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Diphyus
Diphyus castanopyga
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Subfamily: Ichneumoninae
Genus: Diphyus
Kriechbaumer, 1890
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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 an almost cosmopolitan distribution.[1]

Some species:

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