''Acerotella'' is a genus of parasitoid
wasps
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. T ...
belonging to the family
Platygastridae
The hymenopteran family Platygastridae (sometimes incorrectly spelled Platygasteridae) is a large group (over 4000 species) of exclusively parasitoid wasps, mostly very small (1–2 mm), black, and shining, with geniculate (elbowed) antennae ...
.
The genus was described in 1964 by Masner.
The genus has
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...
.
Species:
* ''
Acerotella boter
''Acerotella'' is a genus of parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Platygastridae.
The genus was described in 1964 by Masner.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range o ...
'' (Walker, 1838).
* ''
Acerotella hungarica'' (Szelényi, 1938)
References
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Platygastridae