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Dryinus

Dryinus is a cosmopolitan genus of dryinid parasitic wasp. Over 242 species have been described worldwide. Numerous fossil species have been described from the Baltic, Dominican and Burmese ambers.

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Dryinus
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Dryinus koebelei female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Dryinidae
Subfamily: Dryininae
Genus: Dryinus
Latreille, 1804
Type species
Dryinus collaris
(Linnaeus, 1767)

Dryinus is a cosmopolitan genus of dryinid parasitic wasp. Over 242 species have been described worldwide.1 Numerous fossil species have been described from the Baltic, Dominican and Burmese ambers.2

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  1. Xu, Zaifu; Olmi, Massimo; He, Junhua (April 2008). "Descriptions of Two New Species of Dryinus Latreille from China (Dryinidae)". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 81 (1): 8–11. doi:10.2317/JKES-0608.20.1. ISSN 0022-8567. S2CID 85957333.
  2. Martynova, Kateryna V.; Zhang, Qi; Olmi, Massimo; Müller, Patrick; Perkovsky, Evgeny E. (February 2020). "Revision of the genus Dryinus Latreille (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin (Myanmar) amber". Cretaceous Research. 106 104217. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104217. S2CID 202179792.