Pteromalus

Pteromalus albipennis, from here.

Belongs within: Pteromalinae.

Pteromalus is a genus of wasps parasitising a wide variety of insect hosts, including some commercially significant Lepidoptera pests (such as Pteromalus puparum on cabbage whites).

Characters (from Bouček 1988): Antenna inserted near to centre of face, with two anelli and six funicular segments; lower face with radiating striation; clypeus not large, poorly delimited; collar with distinct transverse carina or rectangular edge; prepectus small, horizontally shorter than tegula; scutellum mainly bare; propodeum mostly without strong plicae, propodeal apex broad, adpetiolar margin low.

<==Pteromalus Swederus 1795 (see below for synonymy) B88
    |--*P. puparum (Linnaeus 1758) [=Ichneumon puparum; incl. P. australicus Girault & Dodd in Girault 1915] B88
    |--P. albipennis [=Etoxys (*Habrocytus) albipennis] B88
    |--‘Habrocytus’ americus Girault 1917 G17
    |--‘Habrocytus’ australiensis Girault 1933 G33
    |--P. baton Walker 1839 [=Habrocytus baton] B88
    |--P. cerealellae (Ashmead 1902) [=Catolaccus cerealellae, Habrocytus ceralellae] B88
    |--P. elpinice Walker 1839 (n. d.) B88
    |--P. fabia Walker 1839 (n. d.) B88
    |--P. flavicornis (Girault & Dodd in Girault 1915) [=Uriellomyia flavicornis] B88
    |--P. garibaldius (Girault 1938) [=Habrocytus garibaldia] B88
    |--P. hesus Walker 1839 (n. d.) B88
    |--‘Habrocytus’ kansensis Girault 1917 G17
    |--P. niphe Walker 1839 [=Habrocytus niphe] B88
    |--‘Habrocytus’ obscuripes Ashmead 1890 GM79
    |--‘Habrocytus’ quinquefasciatus Girault 1916 GM79
    |--P. semotus (Walker 1834) [=Eutelus semotus, Habrocytus semotus; incl. H. milleri Delucchi & Verbeke 1953] B88
    |--P. sequester Walker 1835 [incl. Habrocytus medicaginis Gahan 1914] B88
    |--P. tabacum (Fitch 1863) GM79
    `--P. unca Walker 1839 [=Habrocytus unca] B88

Pteromalus Swederus 1795 [incl. Colas Curtis 1827, Gnatho Curtis 1829, Habrocytus Thomson 1878, Heterolaccus Masi 1937, Metopachia Westwood 1839] 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. 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).

[G33] Girault, A. A. 1933. Some beauties inhabitant not of the boudoirs of commerce but of Nature’s bosom—new insects. 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: 304-305).

[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.