
Epitranus is a genus of parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Chalcididae. This genus is the sole representative of the subfamily Epitraninae. Epitranus species are primarily distributed across tropical regions of the Old World, including Africa and Australia. Notably, the genus has also been recorded in the Nearctic and Indomalayan region, with Epitranus clavatus introduced there.
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Epitranus is a genus of parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Chalcididae. This genus is the sole representative of the subfamily Epitraninae. Epitranus species are primarily distributed across tropical regions of the Old World, including Africa and Australia. Notably, the genus has also been recorded in the Nearctic and Indomalayan region, with Epitranus clavatus introduced there.
The oldest archived documentation of the Epitranus is the Epitranus clavatus from 1804. A new species of Epitranus has been discovered, the Epitranus longicaudatus was first documented in 2024 and love in the Indomalayan realm.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).