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English
Noun
aphelinid (plural aphelinids)
- (zoology) Any member of the family Aphelinidae of parasitic wasps.
2005, Norman F. Johnson, Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects, page 531: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).
Translations
any member of the Aphelinidae