Cleonymus

Unidentified Cleonymus, photographed by Kim Fleming.

Belongs within: Cleonyminae.

Cleonymus is a near-cosmopolitan genus of wasps (unrecorded from South America), parasitic on wood-boring beetles (Bouček 1988).

Characters (from Bouček 1988): Antenna with eight distinct segments between pedicel and clava; male antenna unbranched, with almost symmetrical segments covered by regular dense pilosity; preclava in female with distinct lateral process closely applied to side of clava; notaular grooves becoming indistinct in very dense reticulation-puncturation on posterior half of scutum; stigmal vein in both sexes fairly long, at very low angle, fully twice as long as distance of stigmal knob from postmarginal vein; hind femur often serrate or with a subapical tooth on ventral margin; gaster in female sessile.

<==Cleonymus Latreille 1809 (see below for synonymy) B88
    |--*C. depressus [=Diplolepis depressa] B88
    |--C. californicus Girault 1917 GM79
    |--C. dentatifemur (Girault 1926) [=Aplatygerrhus dentatifemur] B88
    |--C. imperialis (Dodd 1924) [=Aplatygerrhus imperialis] B88
    |--C. laticinctus (Girault 1926) [=Systolomorphella laticincta] B88
    |--C. magnificus (Ashmead 1888) [=Charitopus magnificus, *Ptinobius magnificus] B88
    |--C. magnus Bouček 1988 [=*Aplatygerrhus magnificus Girault 1913 non Charitopus magnificus Ashmead 1888] B88
    |--C. nigriclavus Girault 1917 G17
    |--C. pentlandi (Girault 1922) [=Systolomorphella pentlandi] B88
    |--C. regalis (Dodd 1924) [=Aplatygerrhus regalis] B88
    |--C. rufiscapus (Girault 1925) [=Aplatygerrhus rufiscapus] B88
    |--C. silvifilia (Girault 1927) [=Systolomorphella silvifilia] B88
    |--C. trifasciatipennis (Girault 1915) [=*Systolomorphella trifasciatipennis] B88
    |--C. unfasciatipennis (Dodd & Girault in Girault 1915) [=Systolomorphella unfasciatipennis] B88
    |--C. unnotipennis (Girault 1915) [=Systolomorphella unnotipennis] B88
    `--‘*Beharella’ viridicyanea B88

Cleonymus Latreille 1809 [incl. Aplatygerrhus Girault 1913, Beharella Risbec 1952, Ptinobius Ashmead 1896, Systolomorphella Girault 1915] 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).

[G17] Girault, A. A. 1917. 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).

[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.