Elasmus

Taxobox
name = "Elasmus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hymenoptera
subordo = Apocrita
superfamilia = Chalcidoidea
familia = Eulophidae
subfamilia = Elasminae
genus = "Elasmus"
genus_authority = Westwood, 1833
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = >210 species
synonyms =
*"Aneure" Nees, 1834
*"Heptacondyla" Rondani, 1877
*"Cyclopleura" Cameron, 1913
*"Austelasmus" Riek, 1967

The genus "Elasmus" is the only member of the subfamily Elasminae (formerly classified as a separate family, Elasmidae), and contains over 200 species worldwide. They are mostly parasitoids or hyperparasitoids of lepidopteran larvae, though several species are parasitoids of "Polistes" paper wasp larvae.