Author, year, journal with original description
Hansson, C., 2004, Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 75:131-132
Type species
Driopteron cristatum Hansson (holotype female in the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa)
Synonym names
None
Diagnosis
Clypeus delimited by a groove laterally and dorsally; midlobe of mesoscutum with one pair of setae; median propodeum raised and usually strongly reticulate; supracoxal flanges more or less enlarged and membranous; forewing with long admarginal setae, with a tuft of black setae at base of marginal vein, marginal vein distorted medially and/or with a tuft of black setae medially
Number of species
Six
Distribution
Neotropical region: Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru
Biology
Reared from galls with gall-midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on various plants
Literature
Hansson, C. 2004. Eulophidae of Costa Rica, 2. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 75:1-536 (Driopteron is treated on pp. 131-139)