Dryinidae comes from the Grek (Dryinus = Oak). Latreille named this family because the first species was collectede in an Oak plant in Spain. Dryinidae (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea) is a family of wasps cosmopolita and solitary. The larvae are parasitoids of nymphs and adults of Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera). Comprises approximately 1800 described species, distributed in 15 subfamilies and 50 genera. The adult wasp can measure from 0.9 to 5.0 mm in length and in some cases can reach 13 mm. Its species have a marked sexual dimorphism where males are totally different from the females in the size and shape of body and beyond the absence of wings in some females genera of the subfamily Gonatopodinae. Species are usually sexually dimorphic; males have wings while females are often wingless and res