Euplectrus

Larvae of Euplectrus on a noctuid caterpillar, from Entomart.

Belongs within: Eulophinae.

Euplectrus is a cosmopolitan genus of wasps developing as gregarius ectoparasites of caterpillars (Bouček 1988).

Characters (from Bouček 1988): Pronotum rather short, dorsally with a fine transverse carina. Scutellum lacking longitudinal grooves, sculpture mostly rather fine or almost smooth. Hind tibia with elongate spurs.

<==Euplectrus Westwood 1832 B88 (see below for synonymy)
    |--*E. maculiventris B88
    |--E. agaristae Crawford 1911 B88
    |--E. australiensis Ashmead 1900 B88
    |--E. bicolor HB13
    |--E. cairnsenses Girault 1913 B88
    |--E. cariniscutum Girault 1915 B88
    |--E. immargiventris Girault 1915 B88
    |--E. kurandaensis Girautl 1913 B88
    |--E. laphygmae B88
    |--E. leucotrophis Howard 1885 GM79
    |--E. lutheri Girault 1924 B88
    |--E. marginatus Ashmead 1885 GM79
    |--E. melanocephalus Girault 1913 B88
    |--E. migneti Girault 1936 B88 [=Euplectrue (l. c.) migneti G36]
    |--E. pachyscapha Girault 1917 G17a
    |--E. platyhypenae Howard 1885 GM79
    |--E. platypenae Howard 1885 GM79
    |--E. pullipes Girault 1915 B88
    |--E. scotti Girault 1913 B88
    |--E. semimarginatus Girault 1917 G17b
    |--E. seminigrifemur Girault 1924 B88
    `--E. xanthocephalus Girault 1913 B88

Euplectrus Westwood 1832 B88 [=Euplectrue (l. c.) G37; incl. Diplectron Dahlbom 1857 B88, Heteroscapus Brèthes 1918 B88, Pachyscapha Howard 1897 B88, Rekabia Cameron 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. New chalcid flies. 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: 72-77).

[G17b] Girault, A. A. 1917b. 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).

[G36] Girault, A. A. 1936. Terror-errors; and novitates of Pterygota (or earth realities not state-bound). 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: 322-325).

[G37] Girault, A. A. 1937. New naturals, unorthodoxies and non-pollutions, viz. new hexapods. 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: 326-328).

[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.