Eupelmus (Eupelmus) Dalman

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Eupelmidae; Subfamily: Eupelminae; Genus: Eupelmus)

Eupelmus Dalman, 1820. Type species: Eupelmus memnonius Dalman, 1820.

	Eupelmus afer Silvestri, 1914 (Eritrea, Italy, South Africa)
	Eupelmus albohirtus (Hedqvist, 1970) (South Africa)
	Eupelmus albopilosa (Crosby, 1909)
	Eupelmus aspidoprocti Ferrière, 1941 (Tanzania) Eupelmus australiensis (Girault, 1913) (worldwide) Eupelmus austron Bouček, 1976 (Madagascar) Eupelmus batataephilus (Risbec, 1951) (Senegal) Eupelmus brevicollis (Risbec, 1951) (Senegal) Eupelmus brincki (Hedqvist, 1970) (South Africa) Eupelmus calopterus Masi, 1943 (Somalia) Eupelmus curculionis Ferrière, 1935 (Indonesia, Senegal) Eupelmus cursor Brues, 1907 (South Africa) Eupelmus curvistylus (Risbec, 1951) (Senegal)
	Eupelmus dakarensis (Risbec, 1957)
	Eupelmus elgonensis (Risbec, 1955) (Kenya) Eupelmus elongatus Risbec, 1951 (Senegal) Eupelmus fissicollis Risbec, 1952 (Madagascar) Eupelmus ivondroi (Risbec, 1952) (Madagascar) Eupelmus longicorpus Girault, 1915 (Australia, India, Spain, Zimbabwe) Eupelmus minor Silvestri, 1915 (Eritrea) Eupelmus nubifer Brues, 1907 (South Africa) Eupelmus nyanzaensis (Risbec, 1957) (Burundi) Eupelmus oleae Silvestri, 1915 (Eritrea) Eupelmus orientalis (Crawford, 1913) (India, Iraq, Niger, South Africa) Eupelmus orthopterae (Risbec, 1951) (Senegal, South Africa) Eupelmus pedatorioides (Hedqvist, 1970) (Lesotho) Eupelmus platyscapa (Risbec, 1952) (Madagascar) Eupelmus saissetiae Silvestri, 1915 (Eritrea, Puerto Rico) Eupelmus setiger (Crosby, 1909) (Mozambique) Eupelmus seyrigi (Risbec, 1952) (Madagascar) Eupelmus soudanensis Ferrière, 1925 (Mali, Senegal)
	Eupelmus spermophilus Silvestri, 1915
	Eupelmus testaceus (Risbec, 1952) (Madagascar) Eupelmus volator Brues, 1907 (South Africa) Eupelmus vuilleti (Crawford, 1913) (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal) Eupelmus zumbensis Crosby, 1909 (Mozambique)
	Eupelmus species
	Eupelmus species

Distribution	Worldwide.
Biology	Parasitoids or phytophagous on a wide variety of insects and plants.
References	Fusu L, Ebrahimi E, Siebold C, Villemant C. 2015. Revision of the Eupelmidae Walker, 1833 described by Jean Risbec. Part 1: the slide mounted specimens housed at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris. Zoosystema 37: 457–480. https://doi.org/10.5252/z2015n3a3 Gibson, G.A.P. 1995. Parasitic wasps of the subfamily Eupelminae: classification and revision of world genera (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae). Memoirs on Entomology, International 5: 1-421. Gibson G.A.P. 2017. Synonymy of Reikosiella Yoshimoto under Merostenus Walker (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae), with a checklist of world species and a revision of those species with brachypterous females. Zootaxa 4255: 1–65. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4255.1.1. Silvestri, F.1915. Contributo all conoscenza degli insetti dell'olivo dell'Eritrea e dell'Africa meridionalei. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura, Portici 9: 240-334. Werner J & Peters RS. 2018. Taxonomic revision of the genus Oodera Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Cleonyminae), with description of ten new species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 63: 73-123. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.63.12754
Credits	Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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