A Checklist of Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of India

The family Aphelinidae is a small group of Chalcidoidea, containing 36 genera and more than thousand species globaly and a major source of biocontrol agents of economically important pest species (Noyes, 2003). Generally, majority of the aphelinids are known as parasitoids of sternorrhynchous Homoptera. Species of the genera like Encarsia Foerster (Polaszek et al., 2004), and Eretmocerus Haldeman (Rose and Zolnerowich, 1997) attack Aleyrodidae while the members of the genus Aphelinus Dalman attack mostly aphids (Hayat, 1998).