Bark-beetle-parasitoid
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Cryptoxilos
Cryptoxilos is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the family Braconidae, subfamily Euphorinae, established by Henry Lorenz Viereck in 1911 with C. dichromorphus as the type species. The genus contains eight described species distributed across multiple continents. Members are known to parasitize adult bark beetles (Scolytinae, Coleoptera), with documented associations including Chaetoptelius mundulus in New Zealand and Hypothenemus species in Fiji.