Eulophinae

Euplectromorpha nigromaculatus, from here.

Belongs within: Eulophidae.
Contains: Tetrastichinae, Cirrospilus, Eulophini, Elachertus, Diaulomorpha, Euplectrus, Platyplectrus.

The Eulophinae are a group of wasps that mostly develop as parasites of insects burrowing or mining in plant tissues. The notauli are generally reduced in the Eulophini but are fully developed in the Elachertini and Euplectrini. The Elachertini are also characterised by the presence of sublateral grooves on the scutellum, while the Euplectrini have greatly enlarged spur(s) on the hind tibia, distinctly longer than the basitarsus (Bouček 1988).

Characters (from Bouček 1988): Antenna basally 12-segmented (but one or more proximal flagellar segments reduced to anelli and then eventually lost); scutellum with 2 pairs of setae, sometimes with additional hairs; submarginal vein continuous with parastigma; postmarginal vein well developed; gastral tergites 7 and 8 fused into epipygium. Scutellar grooves often present in sublateral position, always inside the paired setae, anteriorly branching off from axillar grooves (which converge rather strongly), medially often diverging before turning mesad at apex and then often both sides uniting in an arcuate cross-groove at hind margin of scutellum (may be in a more submedian position, mesad of interior corners of the axillae, and not curving inwards posteriorly).

Eulophinae [Elachertidae, Elachertinae] B88
    |  i. s.: Melittobiopsis ereneutiphila B88
    |         Pauahiana Yoshimoto 1965 B88
    |         Kerya Bouček 1988 [Keryini] B88
    |           `--*K. antennalis Bouček 1988 B88
    |         Seyrigina Risbec 1952 D07
    |           |--*S. gracile Risbec 1952 D07
    |           `--S. rizicola Risbec 1960 D07
    |--+--Tetrastichinae HB13
    |  `--+--Cirrospilus HB13
    |     `--Zagrammosoma Ashmead 1904 HB13, B88 (see below for synonymy)
    |          |--*Z. multilineatum [=*Hippocephalus multilineatus] B88
    |          `--Z. americanum MH11
    `--+--Eulophini B88
       `--+--Elachertini [Elachistina, Elachistoidae] B88
          |    |--Elachertus MH11
          |    |--Diaulomorpha B88
          |    |--Stenopetius Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |    `--*S. rugosus Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |--Zealachertus Bouček 1978 B88
          |    |    `--*Z. nothofagi Bouček 1978 B88
          |    |--Eupronotius Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |    `--*E. scaposus Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |--Trielacher Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |    `--*T. forticornis Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |--Alophomorphella Girault 1913 B88
          |    |    `--*A. illustris Girault 1913 B88
          |    |--Ryhonos Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |    `--*R. elegans Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |--Setelacher Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |    `--*S. fasciatus Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |--Renaniana Girault 1931 B88
          |    |    `--*R. mirissima Girault 1931 B88
          |    |--Pseudiglyphus Girault 1915 B88
          |    |    `--*P. grotiusi Girault 1915 [incl. P. spadiciventris Girault 1915] B88
          |    |--Gallowayia Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |    `--*G. picta Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |--Petiolacus Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |    `--*P. stenus Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |--Euplectrophelinus Girault 1913 [incl. Seletrichella Risbec 1952] B88
          |    |    |--*E. saintpierrei Girault 1913 B88
          |    |    `--‘*Seletrichella’ meridionalis B88
          |    |--Necremnoides Girault 1913 B88
          |    |    |--*N. tricarinatus Girault 1913 B88
          |    |    `--N. fulvipropodeum Girault 1915 B88
          |    |--Gattonia Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |    |--*G. basirufa Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |    `--G. nigra Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |--Ascotolinx Girault 1913 B88
          |    |    |--*A. funeralis Girault 1913 B88
          |    |    `--A. reticoxa Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |--Naumanniola Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |    |--*N. varians Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |    `--N. ramosa Bouček 1988 B88
          |    |--Hyssopus Girault 1916 [=Hyssopiscus Ghesquière 1946; incl. Crataepoides Masi in Zinna 1955] B88
          |    |    |--*H. thymus Girault 1916 B88, GM79 [=*Hyssopiscus thymus B88]
          |    |    |--‘*Crataepoides’ russoi B88
          |    |    `--H. novus Girault 1917 G17a
          |    |--Diglyphomorphomyia Girault 1913 B88
          |    |    |--*D. nigriscutellum Girault 1913 B88
          |    |    |--D. albiclava (Girault 1915) [=Sympiesomorphelleus albiclava] B88
          |    |    |--D. rufescens (Motschulsky 1863) [=Chiloneurus rufescens] B88
          |    |    `--D. speciminipennis (Girault 1913) [=Sympiesomorphelleus speciminipennis] B88
          |    |--Miotropis Thomson 1878 [incl. Cirrospiloideus Ashmead 1904] B88
          |    |    |--‘Cirrospiloideus’ johnsoni Girault 1917 G17a
          |    |    |--‘Cirrospiloideus’ mediolineatus Girault 1917 G17b
          |    |    |--‘Cirrospiloideus’ nigriceps (Girault 1916) GM79
          |    |    |--‘Cirrospiloideus’ nigriprothorax (Girault 1916) GM79
          |    |    `--‘Cirrospiloideus’ seminigriventris Girault 1917 G17c
          |    |--Stenomesius Westwood 1833 (see below for synonymy) B88
          |    |    |--*S. pulchellus B88
          |    |    |--‘*Nioro’ elegantula B88
          |    |    |--S. guttativertex (Girault 1913) [=*Euryscotolinx guttativertex] B88
          |    |    |--S. immarginatus (Girault 1915) [=Euryscotolinx immarginatus] B88
          |    |    |--‘*Stenelachistus’ impressus B88
          |    |    `--S. japonicus (Ashmead 1904) [=Sympiesomorpha japonica] B88
          |    `--Entedonomorpha Girault 1913 B88
          |         |--*E. tennysoni Girault 1913 B88
          |         |--E. albiclava Girault 1915 B88
          |         |--E. froudei (Girault 1938) (see below for synonymy) B88
          |         |--E. renani Girault 1913 B88
          |         |--E. robusta Girault 1922 B88
          |         |--E. spadicicornis Girault 1915 B88
          |         |--E. subfusciventris Girault 1915 B88
          |         |--E. unica Girault 1915 B88
          |         `--E. varicornis Girault 1915 B88
          `--+--Trichospilus Ferrière 1930 B88
             |    |--*T. pupivorus Ferrière 1930 [=T. pupivora] B88
             |    `--T. diatraeae Cherian & Margabandhu 1942 B88
             `--Euplectrini B88
                  |--Euplectrus HB13
                  |--Aroplectrus B88
                  |--Platyplectrus B88
                  |--Awara Bouček 1988 B88
                  |    `--*A. oculata Bouček 1988 B88
                  |--Metaplectrus Ferrière 1941 B88
                  |    |--*M. thoseae B88
                  |    |--M. lucia (Girault 1929) [=Euplectromorpha lucia] B88
                  |    `--M. solitarius Gadd 1945 B88
                  `--Euplectromorpha Girault 1913 [incl. Neoplectrus Ferrière 1940] B88
                       |--*E. unifasciata Girault 1913 B88
                       |--E. atriflagellum Girault 1928 B88
                       |--E. bicarinata [=*Neoplectrus bicarinatus] B88
                       |--E. euplectriformis (Crawford 1911) G17c, GM79 [=Elachertus euplectriformis G17c]
                       |--E. flava Girault 1913 GM79
                       |--E. nigromaculatus (Ashmead 1904) G17c, GM79 [=Euplectrus nigromaculatus G17c]
                       `--E. nympha Girault 1928 B88

Nomen nudum: Euplectromorpha dubia Girault 1929 B88

Entedonomorpha froudei (Girault 1938) [=Alophomorphella froudei, A. albiclava Girault & Dodd in Girault 1915 non Entedonomorpha albiclava Girault 1915] B88

Stenomesius Westwood 1833 [incl. Euryscotolinx Girault 1913, Nioro Risbec 1951, Stenelachistus Masi 1917] B88

Zagrammosoma Ashmead 1904 MH11, B88 [=Hippocephalus Ashmead 1888 non Swainson 1839 B88, Zagrammatosoma Schultz 1906 B88]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[B88] Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera): A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).

[D07] Desjardins, C. A. 2007. Phylogenetics and classification of the world genera of Diparinae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Zootaxa 1647: 1-88.

[G17a] Girault, A. A. 1917a. Descriptiones hymenopterorum chalcidoidicarum variorum cum observationibus. III. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 102-111).

[G17b] Girault, A. A. 1917b. Chalcidoidea nova Marilandensis. II. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 114-115).

[G17c] Girault, A. A. 1917c. Descriptiones hymenopterorum chalcidoidicarum variorum cum observationibus. V. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 116-131).

[GM79] Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 1-400.

[HB13] Heraty, J. M., R. A. Burks, A. Cruaud, G. A. P. Gibson, J. Liljeblad, J. Munro, J.-Y. Rasplus, G. Delvare, P. Janšta, A. Gumovsky, J. Huber, J. B. Woolley, L. Krogmann, S. Heydon, A. Polaszek, S. Schmidt, D. C. Darling, M. W. Gates, J. Mottern, E. Murray, A. D. Molin, S. Triapitsyn, H. Baur, J. D. Pinto, S. van Noort, J. George & M. Yoder. 2013. A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Cladistics 29: 466-542.

[MH11] Munro, J. B., J. M. Heraty, R. A. Burks, D. Hawks, J. Mottern, A. Cruaud, J.-Y. Rasplus & P. Jansta. 2011. A molecular phylogeny of the Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). PLoS One 6 (11): e27023.