Genus Diaparsis Förster, 1869

Type species: Ophion nutritor Fabricius, 1804 .

Diaparsis is a large almost worldwide genus comprising about 90 described and many undescribed species. Most taxa occur in Palaearctic (37 species), Nearctic (11 species), Oriental (22 species) and Afrotropical (17 species) regions. Gauld (1984) mentioned nine species of Diaparsis in Australia but only one abundant species is described (Khalaim 2008, 2015). One endemic species occurs in New Zealand.