Elasmus

The genus Elasmus is the only member of the hymenopteran subfamily Elasminae (formerly classified as a separate family, Elasmidae), and contains over 200 species worldwide. They are mostly parasitoids or hyperparasitoids of lepidopteran larvae, though several species are parasitoids of Polistes paper wasp larvae. Some authorities now place Elasmus in the subfamily Eulophinae.^[1]

Elasmus
Elasmus male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Eulophidae
Subfamily:	Elasminae
Genus:	Elasmus Westwood, 1833
Type species
Elasmus flabellatus (Fonscolombe, 1832)
Species
>210 species
Synonyms
Aneure Nees, 1834 Heptacondyla Rondani, 1877 Cyclopleura Cameron, 1913 Austelasmus Riek, 1967