Spilomicrus Westwood, 1832

Chemyreva, V. G., 2018, The Eastern Palaearctic parasitic wasps of the genus Spilomicrus Westwood, 1832 (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae), Far Eastern Entomologist 357, pp. 1-20 : 2-3

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25221/fee.357.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2FAC5CE6-DCD1-472C-844B-2A99702FF053
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Spilomicrus Westwood, 1832
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Genus Spilomicrus Westwood, 1832 View in CoL View at ENA

Spilomicrus Westwood, 1832: 129 View in CoL .

Type species: Spilomicrus stigmaticalis Westwood, 1832, by monotypy.

NOTES. All members of this genus are small to medium-sized parasitoids (1.0–

4.5 mm) with dark, smooth and shining body. Spilomicrus can be recognized using the keys to genera of the Eastern Palaearctic (Kozlov, 1995) and Oriental region

(Rajmohana, 2006). Synonymy of the genus follows Johnson (1992) and Notton

(2014). The information about host-parasitoid relationships of majority Spilomicrus species is absent. The main hosts are the parasitoids of pupae of different Diptera families, rarely ‒ the larvae of the coleopteran family Staphylinidae (Hoffmeister,

1989; Masner, 1991; Notton, 1999).