Solenura
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| Solenura | |
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| Solenura ania, female from China | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Lyciscidae |
| Genus: | Solenura Westwood, 1868 |
| Type species | |
| Solenura telescopica Westwood, 1868 | |
Solenura is a genus of parasitic chalcidoid wasps with species found around the world. Males and females are dimorphic with females having a long ovipositor used for inserting the eggs into beetle larvae boring inside dead wood. Males are very rarely seen.[1] It was sometimes placed within the family Pteromalidae[2] and is now placed within the family Lyciscidae[3][4] although it is found to be closely related to the genera Heydenia, Ditropinotella and Grooca.[5]
Species in the genus include:
- Solenura carinatus (Brues, 1907)
- Solenura fuscoaenea Masi, 1943
- Solenura nigra (Walker, 1872)
- Solenura ania (Walker, 1846)
- Solenura feretrius (Walker, 1846)
- Solenura keralensis (Narendran, 1992)