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Epyris Westwood

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Bethylidae; Subfamily: Epyrinae)

Epyris Westwood 1832, 1: 129. Type species: Epyris niger Westwood.

Calyoza Westwood (in: Hope) 1837, 2: 56. Type species: Calyoza staphylinoides Hope.

Homoglenus Kieffer 1904, 1: 388. Type species: Homoglendus punctatus Kieffer 1904.

Melanepyris Kieffer 1913, 7: 108. Type species: Epyris imicola Kieffer 1913.

Trissepyris Kieffer 1905, 29: 109, 116-118. Type species: Trissepyris ruficeps Kieffer 1905.

Epyris afer (Magretti, 1884)

Epyris algoae Kieffer, 1911

Epyris algoaensis Kieffer, 1911

Epyris allaudi Kieffer, 1905

Epyris amabilis Saussure, 1892

Epyris ashmeadi (Ebderlein, 1901)

Epyris bicolor Fouts, 1934

Epyris caffrarius Kieffer, 1911

Epyris congolensis Benoit, 1957

Epyris ebneri Kieffer, 1921

Epyris fallax Benoit, 1957

Epyris fuelleborni Kieffer, 1912

Epyris geniculatus Kieffer, 1904

Epyris hottentottus Turner, 1928

Epyris imicola (Kieffer, 1913)

Epyris latipes Kieffer, 1913

Epyris levissimus Turner, 1928

Epyris lippensi Benoit, 1957

Epyris michaelseni Kieffer, 1914

Epyris muiri Turner and Waterston, 1917

Epyris naticola Kieffer, 1913

Epyris penatii Stein & Azevedo, 2011

Epyris perversus Benoit, 1957

Epyris plurilineatus Turner, 1928

Epyris quadripartitus (Benoit, 1957)

Epyris ruficaudus (Kieffer, 1913)

Epyris ruficeps (Kieffer, 1905)

Epyris sanctus (Turner, 1928)

Epyris silverstrii Kieffer, 1913

Epyris staphylinoides (Hope, 1837)

Epyris subalatus Turner, 1928

Epyris subramosa (Turner, 1915)

Epyris torridus Kieffer, 1912

Epyris viduatus (Turner, 1928)

Epyris windhukiensis Kieffer, 1914

Epyris wittei Benoit, 1957

Distribution	Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.
Biology	Unknown.
References	Azevedo CO, Garcia R, Gobbi FT & van Noort S. 2015. Insecta, Hymenoptera, Bethylidae: range extension and filling gaps in Central African Republic. Check List 11: 1-4. Kieffer J.J. 1913. Démembrement du genere Epyris. Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura in Portici.. Bollettino. 4: 108. Turner, R. E. 1928. New Hymenoptera of the family Bethylidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1: 129-152. Westwood , J. O. 1832. Descriptions of several new British forms amongst the parasatic hymenopterous insects. London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 3. 1: 127-129.
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