Endromopoda Hellén, 1939

Khalaim, Andrey I. & Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique, 2022, Darwin wasps of the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Mexico: Ephialtes genus-group, Zootaxa 5169 (3), pp. 201-251 : 220

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scientific name	Endromopoda Hellén, 1939
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Scambus (Endromopoda) Hellén 1839: 56 .

Type species: Scambus (Endromopoda) melanopyga ( Gravenhorst, 1829) , by original designation.

References. Townes & Townes 1960: 18 [ Scambus (Endromopoda) ; revision of 3 species (2 described as new) from America north of Mexico]. Carlson 1979: 322 [ Scambus (Endromopoda) ; catalogue; 4 species in America north of Mexico].

Endromopoda is a small predominantly Holarctic genus with 11 species. Four species occur in the Nearctic region. One undescribed species is recorded here in Mexico.

Species of Endromopoda are known as parasitods of insects living within the stems of reeds and grasses ( Townes & Townes 1960). Most host records are from various Lepidoptera ; also recorded from Cephidae (Hymenoptera) , Chloropidae (Diptera) and Curculionidae (Coleoptera) .