Meanings
plural eupelmids
- biologyAny member of the family Eupelmidae of parasitic wasps.
In most chalcidoids, the mesopleura have a groove for the femora, but encyrtids lack this groove (as do the signiphorids, tanaostigmatids, some aphelinids, and some eupelmids).
2005, Norman F. Johnson, Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects, page 531
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