Author, year, journal with original description
Ashmead, W.H, 1904, Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, 1:344
Type species
Eulophus auripunctatus Ashmead (holotype female in the Natural History Museum, London)
Synonym names
Callifrons Schauff, Yoshimoto, Hansson; Ladna Boucek; Moserina Delucchi
Diagnosis
Clypeus delimited by grooves laterally only; pronotum reduced, usually without transverse carina; midlobe of mesoscutum usually with only one pair of setae; male genitalia: digitus usually with only one spine
Number of species
100, of which 97 occur in the Neotropical region
Distribution
Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical and Oriental regions, most species in Neotropical region
Biology
Parasitoids on gall-midges or other gall-forming insects
Literature
Ashmead, W.H., 1904. Classification of the chalcid flies. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, 1:225-551
Hansson, C. 2004. Eulophidae of Costa Rica, 2. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 75:1-536 (Chrysonotomyia is treated on pp. 34-122)