Very few predators and parasites ofAphytis have been recorded. Among predators, only Coccinellids preying on Diaspine scale insects have been mentioned as damaging to the preimaginal stages ofAphytis on occasion, and a single case of a mitePyemotidae has been known to have destroyed the pupae. As to the parasites known, they are accidental and rare. There are cases where only the male lives as a parasite onAphytis, the female developing normally as a primary parasite onAphytis hosts.