Miscogasterini

Male Halticoptera laevigata, photographed by Thomas Hoffmeister.

Belongs within: Pteromalinae.

The Miscogasterini are a group of parasitic wasps whose known hosts are Diptera burrowing in or mining soft tissues of plants. The group is somewhat poorly defined, but its members generally have complete notauli and a petiolate gaster (Bouček 1988).

<==Miscogasterini [Sphegigasterini] MH11
    |--+--Diconocara petiolata MH11
    |  `--Sphaeripalpus MH11
    |--Cyrtogaster MH11
    |    |--C. liqueatus Ashmead 1894 GM79 (see below for synonymy)
    |    `--C. vulgaris MH11
    `--+--Lamprotatus splendens MH11
       `--+--Polstonia pelagocorypha MH11
          `--+--Thinodytes MH11
             `--Halticoptera Spinola 1811 MH11, B88 (see below for synonymy)
                  |--*H. flavicornis [=Diplolepis flavicornis] B88
                  |--H. laevigata MH11
                  `--H. stella Girault 1917 G17a

Miscogasterini incertae sedis:
  Toxeumella Girault 1913 G29, GM79
  Bairamlia B88
  Ammeia Delucchi 1962 B88
    `--*A. pulchella Delucchi 1962 B88
  Stictomischus Thomson 1876 B88
    |--*S. scaposus B88
    `--S. remotus Bouček 1988 B88
  Rhicnocoelia Graham 1956 B88
    |--*R. constans [=Pteromalus constans] B88
    `--R. incisa Bouček 1988 B88
  Miscogaster B88
    |--M. abnormicolor Girault 1917 G17a
    |--M. damia Walker 1839 (n. d.) [=Lamprotatus damia] B88
    |--M. discoloripes Girault 1917 G17a
    |--M. keatsi Girault 1917 G17b
    `--M. nicon Walker 1839 (n. d.) [=Lamprotatus nicon] B88
  Sphegigaster Spinola 1811 (see below for synonymy) B88
    |--*S. pallicornis [=Diplolepis pallicornis] B88
    |--S. agromyzae (Dodd 1917) [=Trigonogastra agromyzae] B88
    |--‘*Trigonogastra’ aurata B88
    |--S. elegantula [=*Basilewskyella elegantula] B88
    `--S. voltairei (Girault 1915) [=*Paratrigonogastra voltairei] B88

Cyrtogaster liqueatus Ashmead 1894 GM79 [incl. C. citripes Ashmead 1896 G17a, GM79, Polycyrtus floridanus Ashmead 1896 G17a, GM79, Polycystus foersteri Crawford 1913 G17a, GM79, C. occidentalis Ashmead 1896 G17a, GM79]

Halticoptera Spinola 1811 MH11, B88 [incl. Dicyclus Walker 1833 B88, Megorismus Walker 1846 B88, Pachylarthrus Westwood 1832 B88, Phacostomus Nees 1834 B88, Phagonia Curtis 1832 B88, Tityros Walker 1848 B88]

Sphegigaster Spinola 1811 [incl. Basilewskyella Risbec 1957, Paratrigonogastra Girault 1915, Trigonogastra Ashmead 1904] 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).

[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. 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: 132-137).

[G29] Girault, A. A. 1929. New pests from Australia. VI. 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: 266-269).

[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.

[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.