Eupelmus

Mating pair of Eupelmus vesicularis, photographed by Josef Dvořák.

Belongs within: Eupelminae.

Eupelmus is a diverse genus of wasps with larvae parasitic on a variety of insect hosts, but usually found as a single larva on a relatively small host in a sheltered location (such as within a gall, cocoon or seed). In the subgenus Macroneura (recognised as a separate genus by Bouček 1988), females are brachypterous, with the last tergite in almost a vertical position and usually a transverse ridge of stiff black bristles on the pronotum (Bouček 1988).

Characters (from Bouček 1988): Mesopleuron transformed into large convex shield in females, not so in males; sixth tergite in female medially divided; last tergite (which bears cerci on its lateral extensions) in females deeply marginate medially above the ovipositor, the emargination enclosing a special roundish sclerite; forewing often with oblique bare strip (linea calva); some species brachypterous.

Eupelmus Dalman 1820 B88 (see below for synonymy)
    |--*E. (Eupelmus) memnonius B88
    `--E. (Macroneura Walker 1837) AN-A04 [incl. Charitopella Crosby 1909 B88]
         |--‘*Macroneura’ maculipes B88
         |--E. (M.) aseculatus Kalina 1981 AN-A04
         |--E. (M.) maculatus (Ferrière 1954) AN-A04
         |--‘Macroneura’ muellneri B88
         |--E. (M.) seculatus (Ferrière 1954) AN-A04
         `--‘Macroneura’ setigera [=*Charitopella setigera] B88

Eupelmus incertae sedis:
  E. aereiclavus Girault 1925 B88
  E. aeschyli (Girault 1921) [=Anastatus aeschyli] B88
  E. aesopi Girault 1921 B88
  E. albipes Girault 1915 B88
  E. alhazeni Girault 1918 B88
  E. annulatus Nees 1834 AN-A04
  E. antipoda Ashmead 1900 [incl. E. grotii Girault 1915] B88
  E. argentinotatus Girault 1915 B88
  E. atropurpureus Dalman 1820 AN-A04
  E. australiensis (Girault 1913) (see below for synonymy) B88
  E. australis Girault 1915 B88
  E. babindaensis Girault 1915 B88
  E. bardus Girault 1917 G17c
  E. benthami (Girault 1915) [=Anastatus benthami] B88
  E. bilingae Girault 1923 B88
  E. blattidifurax G25a
  E. brevicaudus (Crawford 1908) GM79 [=Cerambycobius brevicaudus G17b]
  E. brunnella Girault 1915 [=E. brunella (l. c.)] B88
  E. brutus Girault 1920 B88
  E. burmeisteri Girault 1915 B88
  E. caesar Girault 1929 B88
  E. chauceri Girault 1915 B88
  E. coccidis Girault 1917 G17b (see below for synonymy)
  E. coleopterorum (Girault 1913) [=Calosoter coleopterorum, Anastatus coleopterorum] B88
  E. crawfordi Girault 1915 B88
  E. cromwelli Girault 1922 B88
  E. cyaneus (Gourlay 1928) [=*Neosolindenia cyanea] B88
  E. degeeri [=*Eupelmella degeeri] B88
  E. dumasi Girault 1915 B88
  E. elizabethae Girault 1929 B88
  E. falcatus MH11
  E. fieldingi Girault 1915 B88
  E. finlayi Girault 1930 B88
  E. frederici (Girault 1915) [=Anastatus frederici] B88
  E. froudei Girault 1922 B88
  E. fuscipennis Förster 1860 [incl. E. capillaris Bolívar 1933] AN-A04
  E. gorgias (Walker 1839) [=Pteromalus gorgias] B88
  E. grayi Girault 1915 [incl. E. grayi var. brevicinctus Girault 1939] B88
  E. greelyi Girault 1915 B88
  E. hallami Girault 1920 B88
  E. heinei Girault 1922 B88
  E. hirsutioculus Girault 1925 B88
  E. javae Girault 1917 G17a
  E. juniperinus Bolívar 1933 AN-A04
  E. lavoisieri Girault 1915 B88
  E. longicauda Girault 1915 B88
  E. longicorpus Girault 1915 [incl. Anastatus boussingaulti Girault 1915] B88
  E. lutheri Girault 1922 B88
  E. matranus Erdös 1947 [incl. E. splendens Bolívar 1933 non Giraud 1871] AN-A04
  E. microzonus Förster 1860 AN-A04
  E. montaignei Girault 1915 [incl. E. beenleighi Girault 1926] B88
  E. moroderi B88
  E. nelsonensis Girault 1915 B88
  E. pax (Girault 1913) [=Ooderelloides pax, Anastatus pax] B88
  ‘Eupelmella’ pedatoria B88
  E. pipunculi G25b
  E. pudicus Girault 1915 B88
  E. renani Girault 1915 B88
  E. rostratus Ruschka 1921 AN-A04
  E. scarabaei Girault 1938 B88
  E. schmiedeknechti [=Macroneura (*Euronmacra) schmiedeknechti] B88
  ‘Parooderella’ semiputata Girault 1915 [=Macroneura semiputata] B88
  E. shakespearei Girault 1922 B88
  E. soror Girault 1915 B88
  E. sphaericephalus Ashmead 1886 GM79
  E. splendidus (Girault 1913) [=Ooderelloides splendidus, Anastatus borrowi Girault 1917] B88
  ‘Eupelminus’ swezeyi [=*Charitopodinus swezeyi] B88
  E. testaceiventris (Motschulsky 1863) B88 (see below for synonymy)
  E. thestalus (Walker 1839) [=Cirrospilus thestalus] B88
  E. toowongi Girault 1923 B88
  E. tricolor G24
  E. unipunctipennis Girault 1927 B88
  E. urozonus Dalman 1820 B88
  E. vesicularis (Ratzius 1783) HB13, B88 (see below for synonymy)
  E. virgilii Girault 1922 B88
  ‘*Bruchocida’ vuilleti B88

Nomina nuda: Eupelmus argentilinea Girault 1927 B88
             Eupelmus masini Girault 1915 B88

Eupelmus Dalman 1820 B88 [incl. Bruchocida Crawford 1913 B88, Charitopodinus Bridwell 1918 B88, Episolindelia Girault 1914 B88, Eupelmella Masi 1919 B88, Euronmacra Kalina 1981 B88, Holceupelmus Cameron 1905 B88, Neosolindenia Gourlay 1928 B88, Rafa Brethes 1916 B88]

Eupelmus australiensis (Girault 1913) [=Idoleupelmus australiensis; incl. E. australicus Girault 1915, E. listeri Girault 1915, E. popa Girault 1917] B88

Eupelmus coccidis Girault 1917 G17b [=E. brevicaudus Gahan 1910 non Cerambycobius brevicaudus Crawford 1908 G17b, GM79]

Eupelmus testaceiventris (Motschulsky 1863) B88 [=Roptrocerus testaceiventris B88; incl. Eu. auriventris Girault 1915 B88, Eu. baileyi Girault 1915 B88, Eu. dodo Girault 1921 B88, Eu. folsomi Girault 1915 B88, Eu. inkaka Girault 1921 B88, Eu. renominatus Bouček 1970 B88, Eu. scudderi Girault 1915 B88, Eu. testaceiventris Cameron 1913 non Roptrocerus testaceiventris Motschulsky 1863 B88, Eu. valentinus Bolívar 1933 AN-A04, *Episolindelia varicolor Girault 1914 B88, Eupelmus varicolor B88, Eu. vulgarellus Girault 1915 B88, Idoleupelmus vulgaris Girault 1913 B88]

Eupelmus vesicularis (Ratzius 1783) HB13, B88 [=Ichneumon vesicularis B88, Eupelmella vesicularis B88, Macroneura vesicularis B88; incl. Eupelmus messene Walker 1839 B88]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[AN-A04] Askew, R. R. & J. L. Nieves-Aldrey. 2004. Further observations on Eupelminae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eupelmidae) in the Iberian Peninsula and Canary Islands, including descriptions of new species. Graellsia 60 (1): 27-39.

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

[G17a] Girault, A. A. 1917a. New Javanese Hymenoptera. 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: 59-71).

[G17b] Girault, A. A. 1917b. Descriptiones stellarum novarum. 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: 80-101).

[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).

[G24] Girault, A. A. 1924. Lese majeste, new insects and robbery. 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: 182).

[G25a] Girault, A. A. 1925a. Indications (in new insects) of ruling power and laws in nature. 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: 184-186).

[G25b] Girault, A. A. 1925b. An essay on when a fly is lovable, the ceremony of baptizing some and unlovely hate. 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: 187-190).

[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.