Solenura

Solenura is a genus of parasitic chalcidoid wasps with species found around the world. Males and females are dimorphic with females having a long ovipositor used for inserting the eggs into beetle larvae boring inside dead wood. Males are very rarely seen.^[1] It was sometimes placed within the family Pteromalidae^[2] and is now placed within the family Lyciscidae^[3][4] although it is found to be closely related to the genera Heydenia, Ditropinotella and Grooca.^[5]

Solenura
Solenura ania, female from China
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Lyciscidae
Genus:	Solenura Westwood, 1868
Type species
Solenura telescopica Westwood, 1868

Species in the genus include:

• Solenura carinatus (Brues, 1907)
• Solenura fuscoaenea Masi, 1943
• Solenura nigra (Walker, 1872)
• Solenura ania (Walker, 1846)
• Solenura feretrius (Walker, 1846)
• Solenura keralensis (Narendran, 1992)