aphelinid

English

Noun

aphelinid (plural aphelinids)

1. (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

• Portuguese: afelinídeo m