Diphyus

Diphyus is a genus of parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Ichneumonidae.^[1]

Diphyus
Diphyus castanopyga
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Ichneumonidae
Subfamily:	Ichneumoninae
Genus:	Diphyus Kriechbaumer, 1890

The genus was first described in 1890 by Joseph Kriechbaumer.^[1][2] (In the contents, the new genus is listed as Diphyes, a genus name which had already been used (1817)^[3] in the animal kingdom for a cnidarian genus, but in the text he described the genus Diphyus. He immediately follows this description with a description of Diphyes tricolor,^[2] which he references later in 1891 with the name Diphyus tricolor.^[4] Thus, the species is Diphyus tricolor.^[2][5]

The genus has almost an cosmopolitan distribution.^[1]

Some species:

• Diphyus akaashii (Uchida, 1955)^[6]

• Diphyus adventor (Berthoumieu, 1892)^[1]
• Diphyus albicoxalis (Uchida, 1927)^[1]
• Diphyus duodecimguttorius (Uchida, 1955)^[7]
• Diphyus higebutonis (Uchida, 1955)^[8]
• Diphyus iwatai^[9] (Uchida, 1955)
• Diphyus palliatorius^[10] (Gravenhorst, 1829)^[1]
• Diphyus quadripunctorius ^[10]
• Diphyus restitutor (Wesmael, 1859) ^[11]
• Diphyus salicatorius (Gravenhorst, 1820)^[12]
• Diphyus suigensis (Uchida, 1927)^[13]
• Diphyus tricolor (Kim, 1955)^[14] Kriechbaumer, 1890^[5]
• Diphyus temmazanensis (Uchida, 1955)^[15]