encyrtid

English

encyrtid (plural encyrtids)

(zoology) Any parasitic wasp in the family Encyrtidae.
- 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).