Closterocerus

Closterocerus trifasciatus, photographed by Charley Eiseman.

Belongs within: Entedoninae.

Closterocerus is a genus of wasps parasitising small leaf-mining larvae of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera (Bouček 1988).

Characters (from Bouček 1988): Antenna black, with the scape compressed and subtriangular, expanded in distal one-third; flagellum also compressed, with short broad segments, clava with a long spicula; forewing usually with dark arcuate cross-bands which may be joined in middle, sometimes only with one band, at stigma.

<==Closterocerus Westwood 1833 [incl. Chrysocharella Girault 1913] B88
    |--*C. trifasciatus B88
    |--C. cruy (Girault 1918) [=Achrysocharella cruy] B88
    |--C. curtisi Girault 1915 B88
    |--‘Chrysocharella’ fasciatipennis Girault 1913 GM79
    |--C. mirus Girault 1913 B88
    |--C. pulcher (Girault 1913) [=*Chrysocharella pulchra, Neochrysocharella pulchra] B88
    |--C. rostandi Girault 1915 B88
    |--C. saintpierrei Girault 1913 B88
    |--C. splendens Kowalski 1917 B88
    |--C. sumae Girault 1934 B88
    |--C. trincinctus Ashmead 1888 GM79 [incl. C. winnemannae Crawford 1912 G25, GM79]
    |--C. westwoodi Girault 1915 B88
    `--C. zangwilli Girault 1913 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).

[G25] Girault, A. A. 1925. 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).

[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.