Entedon

Female Entedon, from here.

Belongs within: Entedoninae.

Entedon is a cosmopolitan genus of wasps that are mostly parasites of beetle larvae burrowing in plant stems or galls (Bouček 1988).

Characters (from Bouček 1988): Head and thorax strongly sclerotised, conspicuously reticulate, pilosity reduced to very few setae; these are conspicuous, strong, but only 2 pairs of them on mid lobe of mesoscutum. Antennae relatively short, in both sexes the flagellum with only one anellus and 5 conspicuous segments, the terminal 2 often, especially in all females, closely united into clava. Tentorial pits not distinct; clypeus transverse, often broad, its lower margin often more or less produced and almost always margined by a shallow groove. Upper margin of occiput forming a rectangular edge which is often sharply carinate. Pronotum medially reduced, non-carinate, but laterally forming a bristle-bearing subconical projection. Notauli not well defined in posterior half, axillae not distinctly advanced. Scutellum convex, without any grooves, also at apex without admarginal groove (occasionally a median groove is suggested anteriorly by finer meshes of sculpture). Propodeum with distinct median carina set in a groove-like depression, the submedian areas convex, mostly smooth, rarely reticulate; spiracle on an elevated area which bears a lateral subconical projection behind the spiracle, elevation is delimited laterally and anteriorly by a deep curving groove which may continue inside by a depression where normally a plica would be; the depression is posteriorly connected by a grooved supracoxal flange with the groove outside of the median carina. Female gaster often sessile or shortly petiolate, in males the petiole is distinctly longer, often distinctly elongate.

<==Entedon Dahlman 1820 (see below for synonymy) B88
    |--*E. cyanellus B88
    |--E. aereiscapus (Girault 1927) [=Entedonella aereiscapus] B88
    |--E. albigenu (Dodd in Girault 1915) [=Pelorotelopsella albigenu] B88
    |--E. australiansis (Girault 1913) (see below for synonymy) B88
    |--E. columbiana Ashmead 1888 GM79 (see below for synonymy)
    |--E. diastatae (Howard 1881) GM79 [incl. Achrysocharis punctiventris Crawford 1912 G34, GM79]
    |--E. ergias A71
    |--E. excelsus (Girault 1913) [=*Uracrias excelsus] B88
    |--E. genu (Girault 1913) [=*Pelorotelopsella genu] B88
    |--E. laticeps (Dodd 1917) [=*Acanthentedon laticeps] B88
    |--E. magnificus (Girault & Dodd in Girault 1913) [=*Entedonella magnifica; incl. Metacrias clara Girault 1929] B88
    |--E. methion Walker 1839 B88
    |--E. occidentalis Girault 1916 GM79
    |--E. rex (Girault 1929) [=Pelorotelopsella rex] B88
    |--E. secundus (Girault 1913) [=Metacrias secundus] B88
    |--E. sylvestris HB13
    |--E. victoriensis (Girault 1928) [=Metacrias victoriensis] B88
    |--E. washingtoni Girault 1917 GM79
    `--E. zanara MH11

Entedon Dahlman 1820 [incl. Acanthentedon Dodd 1917, Entedonella Girault 1913, Metacrias Girault 1913 non Meyrick 1886, Metacriasinus Ghesquière 1946, Pelorotelopsella Girault 1913, Uracrias Girault 1913] B88

Entedon australiansis (Girault 1913) [=*Metacrias australiansis, Metacrias australiensis, *Metacriasinus australiansis, Pelorotelopsella australiansis] B88

Entedon columbiana Ashmead 1888 GM79 [incl. E. bigeloviae Ashmead 1894 G22, GM79, E. robustus (Crawford 1907) G22, GM79]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[A71] Askew, R. R. 1971. Parasitic Insects. Heinemann Educational Books: London.

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

[G22] Girault, A. A. 1922. The North American species of Emersonella and Entedon with excuses, etc. 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: 165).

[G34] Girault, A. A. 1934. Miridae et Hymenoptera nova Australiensis. 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: 308-310).

[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.