Author, year, journal with original description

Girault, A.A., 1916, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 51:49

Type species

Eprhopalotus purpureithorax Girault (type female in the United States National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.)

Synonym names

Aabacharis Schauff

Diagnosis

Clypeus delimited by a groove laterally and dorsally; antennal scrobes join below frontal suture; pronotum reduced, not visible in dorsal view; notauli as complete narrow grooves; mesoscutum and scutellum with raised and very strong reticulation

Number of species

Five

Distribution

Nearctic and Neotropical regions: Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, U.S.A

Biology

Reared from unidentified galls on Quercus and Lonchocarpus

Literature

Girault, A.A. 1916. Descriptions of miscellaneous North American chalcidoid Hymenoptera of the family Eulophidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 51:39-52

Hansson, C. 2004. Eulophidae of Costa Rica, 2. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 75:1-536 (Eprhopalotus is treated on pp. 139-142)

Schauff, M.E. 1991. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 26:32 (as Aabacharis)