''Acrolyta'' is a genus of
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
Ichneumonidae
The Ichneumonidae, also known as the ichneumon wasps, Darwin wasps, or ichneumonids, are a family (biology), family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera. They are one of the most diverse groups within the Hymenoptera with roughly 2 ...
.
The genus was described in 1868 by
Arnold Förster
Arnold Förster (20 January 1810 – 13 August 1884) was a German entomologist, who worked mainly on Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.
Life
Arnold Förster, who was born on 20 January 1810 in Aachen, Germany, where he died on 12 August 1884. He was Ob ...
and 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 ...
.
It is a parasitoid of ''
Cotesia
''Cotesia'' is a genus of braconid wasps first described by Peter Cameron in 1891. Some species parasitize caterpillars of species considered pests, and are used as biocontrol agents. ''Cotesia congregata'' parasitizes the tomato and the tobac ...
'' wasps.
Species
* ''
Acrolyta nens
''Acrolyta'' is a genus of wasps belonging to the family Ichneumonidae. The genus was described in 1868 by Arnold Förster and has cosmopolitan distribution. It is a parasitoid of ''Cotesia
''Cotesia'' is a genus of braconid wasps first descri ...
''
(Hartig, 1838)
* ''
Acrolyta rufocincta''
(Gravenhorst, 1829)
References
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Ichneumonidae