Isoplatoides

Forewing of female Isoplatoides bifasciatus, from Bouček (1988).

Belongs within: Pteromalinae.

Isoplatoides is a genus of wasps parasitising a wide range of host insects, many of them developing within plant structures such as seeds or galls. Members of this genus often (but not always) have bands or spots on the forewing; males have two anelli in the antennae and resemble the related genus Pteromalus, but can be distinguished by the presence of several rows of rather short and dense sensilla lineara on the funicular segments (as opposed to usually single rows in Pteromalus—Bouček 1988).

<==Isoplatoides Girault 1913 (see below for synonymy) B88
    |--*I. bifasciatus Girault 1913 B88
    |--I. aereifemur (Girault 1928) [=Urielloides aereifemur] B88
    |--I. bioculatus (Girault 1913) [=*Apterosemoidella bioculata] B88
    |--I. bipustulatus Girault 1913 B88
    |--I. cupreus (Girault 1913) [=*Polycysteloides cuprea, *P. cupreus] B88
    |--I. flavibasalis (Girault 1915) (see below for synonymy) B88
    |--I. oceia (Walker 1839) [=Pteromalus oceia] B88
    |--I. parviventris (Girault 1920) [=Polycysteloides parviventris] B88
    |--I. pulcher (Girault & Dodd in Girault 1915) [=Aplastomorpha pulchra] B88
    |--I. quadridentatus Girault 1929 B88
    |--I. quinquefasciatus (Girault 1915) [=Aplastomorpha quinquefasciata] B88
    |--I. sagus (Girault 1915) [=Aplastomorpha saga] B88
    |--I. spurcipennis (Girault 1915) [=*Parapterosemoidea spurcipennis] B88
    |--I. thestor (Walker 1839) [=Pteromalus thestor] B88
    |--I. tripustulatus Girault 1929 B88
    `--I. westralianus Girault 1939 [=I. westraliana] B88

Isoplatoides Girault 1913 [incl. Apterosemoidella Girault 1913, Parapterosemoidea Girault 1915, Polycysteloides Girault 1913] B88

Isoplatoides flavibasalis (Girault 1915) [=Eurydinoteloides flavibasalis; incl. Aplastomorpha flavobasalis Girault & Dodd in Girault 1915] 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).

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.

Callitula

Callitula bicolor, photographed by J. K. Lindsey.

Belongs within: Pteromalinae.

Callitula is a cosmopolitan genus of wasps parasitising larvae of small Diptera, particularly Agromyzidae burrowing in plant stems. The female has the apex of the antennal clava produced into an narrow spicula (Bouček 1988).

<==Callitula Spinola 1811 (see below for synonymy) B88
    |--*C. bicolor B88
    |--C. aenea (Girault 1913) [=Pseudosphegigasterus aeneus] B88
    |--C. albipes (Dodd & Girault in Girault 1915) [=Pseudosphegigasterus albipes] B88
    |--C. flavipes (Girault 1913) [=*Pterosemoidea flavipes] B88
    |--‘Pseudosphegigasterus’ flavipes Girault & Dodd in Girault 1915 non Pterosemoidea flavipes Girault 1913 B88
    |--C. grotiusi (Girault 1913) [=*Pseudosphegigasterus grotiusi] B88
    |--C. leroyi (Risbec 1958) [=Polycystomyia leroyi] B88
    |--C. nigriviridis (Girault 1913) [=*Apterosemoidea nigriviridis] B88
    |--C. prima (Girault 1913) [=*Eurydinotella prima] B88
    |--C. punctata (Dodd in Girault 1915) [=*Polycystomyia punctata] B88
    |--C. silvensis (Girault 1913) [=*Eurydinotelleus silvensis] B88
    |--C. uliginosa (Girault 1913) [=Eurydinotelleus uliginosus] B88
    |--C. variventris (Girault 1913) [=Pseudosphegigasterus variventris] B88
    `--C. viridicoxa (Girault 1913) (see below for synonymy) B88

Callitula Spinola 1811 [incl. Apterosemoidea Girault 1913, Baeotomus Förster 1856, Eurydinotella Girault 1913, Eurydinotelleus Girault 1913, Micromelus Walker 1833, Polycystomyia Dodd in Girault 1915, Pseudosphegigasterus Girault 1913, Pterosemoidea Girault 1913] B88

Callitula viridicoxa (Girault 1913) [=Eurydinotella viridicoxa; incl. Polycystomyia benefica Dodd 1917, E. punctata Girault 1915 non Polycystomyia punctata Dodd in Girault 1915] B88

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

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

Mesopolobus

Female Mesopolobus tibialis, photographed by Robin Williams.

Belongs within: Pteromalinae.

Mesopolobus is a diverse and cosmopolitan genus of wasps parasitising a variety of hosts, primarily gallmakers and other insect larvae developing within plants (Bouček 1988).

Characters (from Bouček 1988): Frons in female narrower than antenna less scapus, clava never acuminate; ocelli not unusually small; clypeal margin more or less emarginate; notaular grooves indistinct in posterior half or third, not coloured differently from adjacent reticulation; forewing with postmarginal vein much shorter than marginal; gaster ovate-lanceolate.

<==Mesopolobus Westwood 1833 (see below for synonymy) B88
    |--*M. fasciiventris B88
    |--M. diffinis [incl. M. fulvipes Walker 1834] B88
    |--M. dubius (Walker 1834) B88
    |--‘Hypopteromalus’ dubius Girault & Dodd in Girault 1915 non Mesopolobus dubius (Walker 1834) B88
    |--M. fuscipes A71
    |--M. hackeri (Dodd in Girault 1915) [=Uriellomyia hackeri] B88
    |--M. incultus (Walker 1834) [=Platyterma incultum] B88
    |--M. joulei (Girault 1924) [=*Anogmoidea joulei] B88
    |--M. jucundus A71
    |--‘Amblymerus’ justicia Girault 1917 G17
    |--M. nobilis (Walker 1834) [=Platyterma nobile] B88
    |--M. pallidicornis (Girault & Dodd in Girault 1915) (see below for synonymy) B88
    |--M. tibialis A71
    `--M. xanthocerus A71

Mesopolobus Westwood 1833 [incl. Ahlbergiella von Rosen 1955, Amblymerus Walker 1834, Anogmoidea Girault 1924, Asemantus Förster 1878, Baeoponerus Masi 1924, Disema Förster 1878, Disemisca Ghesquière 1946, Euamblymerus Hincks 1944, Eutelus Walker 1834, Paranogmus Girault & Dodd in Girault 1915, Platymesopus Westwood 1833, Platyterma Walker 1834, Sturovia Bouček 1961, Syntomocera Förster 1878, Syntomocerella Ghesquière 1946, Urielloides Girault 1913, Xenocrepis Förster 1856] B88

Mesopolobus pallidicornis (Girault & Dodd in Girault 1915) [=*Paranogmus pallidicornis; incl. *Urielloides fulvipes Girault 1913 non M. fulvipes Walker 1834, Isoplatoides fulvipes] B88

*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).

[G17] Girault, A. A. 1917. Descriptiones stellarum novarum. 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: 80-101).

Coelocybinae

Ormyromorpha sp., photographed by John M. Heraty.

Belongs within: Chalcidoidea.

The Coelocybinae are a group of small wasps whose larvae, so far as is known, develop in the galls created by other insects on various trees (Bouček 1988).

Characters (from Bouček 1988): Inner eye margins diverging in lower or anterior section. Antennae often relatively short, with less sclerotised area of sensilla on enlarged clava, the segments of which are often fused. Pronotum rather short. Notauli obliterated. Scutellum with a pair of bristles on sides of the frenal line. Propodeum frequently with a basal 'cup'.

<==Coelocybinae B88
    |--Eucoelocybomyia Girault 1915 B88
    |    `--*E. aerea Girault 1915 B88
    |--Tomicobomorphella Girault 1915 B88
    |    `--*T. justicia Girault 1915 B88
    |--Nerotolepsia Girault 1920 B88
    |    `--*N. bella Girault 1920 B88
    |--Paratomicobia Girault 1915 B88
    |    `--*P. flavios Girault 1915 (see below for synonymy) B88
    |--Cooloolana Bouček 1988 B88
    |    `--*C. albicoxa Bouček 1988 B88
    |--Acoelocyba Bouček 1988 B88
    |    `--*A. nemorum (Girault 1927) [=Erotolepsiella nemorum] B88
    |--Erotolepsiella Girault 1915 B88
    |    `--*E. bifasciata Girault 1915 B88
    |--Fusiterga Bouček 1988 B88
    |    |--*F. gallarum Bouček 1988 B88
    |    `--F. lativentris Bouček 1988 B88
    |--Coelocyboides Girault 1913 B88
    |    |--*C. pax Girault 1913 B88
    |    `--C. bialbiguttus Girault 1933 B88
    |--Cybopella Bouček 1988 B88
    |    |--*C. eucalypti Bouček 1988 B88
    |    `--C. tasmanica Bouček 1988 B88
    |--Lelapsomorpha Girault 1913 B88
    |    |--*L. myersi Girault 1913 B88
    |    `--L. bioculata (Girault 1923) [=Coelocyboides bioculata] B88
    |--Ormyromorpha Girault 1913 [incl. Ormyromorphella Girault 1915] B88
    |    |--*O. trifasciatipennis Girault 1913 B88
    |    |--O. aeneiscapus Girault 1927 B88
    |    |--O. biargentinotata (Girault 1915) [=*Ormyromorphella biargentinotata] B88
    |    |--O. ciliata Girault 1925 [=O. glabra ciliata] B88
    |    |--O. glabra Girault 1915 B88
    |    |--O. petiolata Girault 1925 B88
    |    |--O. sexsetosa Girault 1925 B88
    |    |--O. silvifilia Girault 1927 B88
    |    |--O. thera (Walker 1839) [=Miscogaster thera, Lamprotatus thera] B88
    |    `--O. trifasciata Girault 1913 B88
    `--Coelocyba Ashmead 1900 (see below for synonymy) B88
         |--*C. nigrocincta Ashmead 1900 B88 (see below for synonymy)
         |--C. acincta Girault 1913 [=*Paracoelocyba acincta, *Pareunotus acinctus] B88
         |--C. eucalypti Girault 1934 B88
         |--C. flavicorpus (Girault 1915) [=*Pareunotus flavicorpus] B88
         |--C. minuta (Girault 1916) (see below for synonymy) B88
         |--C. nigriventris (Girault 1915) [=Coelocybomyia nigriventris] B88
         |--C. persimilis (Girault 1915) GM79
         |--C. spenceri (Girault 1915) [=*Taneostigmomyia spenceri] B88
         |--C. turneri Girault 1931 B88
         `--C. varifasciata Girault 1915 B88

Coelocyba Ashmead 1900 [incl. Coelocybomyia Girault 1915, Paracoelocyba Girault 1916, Pareunotus Girault 1915, Taneostigmomyia Girault 1915] B88

Coelocyba minuta (Girault 1916) [=Paracoelocyba minuta; incl. C. minuta iridos Girault 1931, P. minuta var. nigriventris Girault 1916 non Coelocybomyia nigriventris Girault 1915] B88

*Coelocyba nigrocincta Ashmead 1900 B88 [=C. nigricincta (l. c.) B88; incl. Coelocybomyia novisexfasciata Girault 1915 B88, Coelocybomyia persimilis Girault 1915 B88, Coelocyba persimilis G34, *Coelocybomyia sexfasciata Girault 1915 B88]

*Paratomicobia flavios Girault 1915 [incl. Ormyromorphella bioculata Girault 1925, Tomicobomorphella heinei Girault 1922] 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).

[G34] Girault, A. A. 1934. New Capsidae and Hymenoptera, with note on an unmentionable. 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: 311-314).

Dirhininae

Dirhinus sp., photographed by D. Magdalena Sorger.

Belongs within: Chalcidoidea.

The Dirhininae are a group of chalcidid wasps with the frons angulately produced forwards; in Dirhinus, it is divided into a pair of edged horns. Dirhinus species are parasites in fly puparia, including those of a number of synanthropic species (Bouček 1988).

<==Dirhininae B88
    |--Aplorhinus [Aplorhinini] B88
    |    `--A. bakeri B88
    `--Dirhinus Dalman 1818 (see below for synonymy) B88
         |--*D. excavatus B88
         |--D. anthracia Walker 1846 B88 (see below for synonymy)
         |--D. atricornis (Girault 1927) [=Pareniaca atricornis] B88
         |--D. emersoni (Girault 1927) [=Pareniaca emersoni] B88
         |--D. inflexus D07
         |--D. loriae (Masi 1947) [=Pareniaca loriae] B88
         |--D. variocelli Girault 1926 [=Dirrhinus (l. c.) variocelli] B88
         `--D. vultur (Girault 1915) *Eniacomorpha vultur; incl. Pareniaca boussingaulti Girault 1915] B88

Dirhinus Dalman 1818 [incl. Dirhinoides Masi 1947, Dirrhinoidea Girault 1912, Eniaca Kirby 1883, Eniacella Girault 1913, Eniacomorpha Girault 1915, Pareniaca Crawford 1913; Dirhinini] B88

Dirhinus anthracia Walker 1846 B88 [incl. Eniacella bicornuticeps Girault 1915 B88, *E. rufricornis Girault 1913 B88, Dirrhinus rufricornis GM79, Dirhinus sarcophagae Froggatt 1919 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).

[D07] Desjardins, C. A. 2007. Phylogenetics and classification of the world genera of Diparinae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Zootaxa 1647: 1-88.

[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.

Epitranus

New species of Epitranus from Tanzania, photographed by Jean-Yves Rasplus.

Belongs within: Chalcidoidea.

Epitranus is an Old World genus of parasitic wasps (possibly introduced to the Americas) whose hosts, so far as is known, are small moths of the Pyralidae and Tineidae (Bouček 1988).

Characters (from Bouček 1988): Antennae inserted very low, on a shield overhanging mouth, scrobes virtually absent; forewing with marginal vein very long, stigmal rudimentary, postmarginal absent; apex of hind tibia tapering into a strong spine extended far beyond insertion of tarsus; gaster attached at coxae, on slender striate petiole which longer than half of gaster.

<==Epitranus Walker 1834 (see below for synonymy) B88
    |--*E. fulvescens B88
    |--E. atripennis Bouček 1982 B88
    |--E. bifasciatus Bouček 1982 B88
    |--E. dorsiplanus Bouček 1982 B88
    |--E. ferrugineus (Cameron 1912) (see below for synonymy) B88
    |--E. hassani Bouček 1982 B88
    |--E. io (Girault 1915) [=Chalcitelloides io] B88
    |--E. nigriscutum (Girault 1914) [=*Chalcitelloides nigriscutum] B88
    |--E. nigrithorax (Girault 1915) [=Chalcitelloides nigrithorax] B88
    |--E. nitens Bouček 1982 B88
    |--E. obsoletus Bouček 1982 B88
    |--‘*Neoanacryptus’ petiolatus B88
    |--‘*Paranacryptus’ sanguineus B88
    |--E. sedlaceki Bouček 1982 B88
    |--E. teleute (Walker 1838) (see below for synonymy) B88
    |--E. umbripennis Bouček 1982 B88
    `--E. vicinus Bouček 1982 B88

Epitranus Walker 1834 [incl. Anacryptus Kirby 1883, Arretocera Kirby 1883, Chalcitella Westwood 1835, Chalcitelloides Girault 1914, Neoanacryptus Girault 1913, Paranacryptus Girault 1915, Pararretoceroides Mani 1938; Epitraninae, Epitranini] B88

Epitranus ferrugineus (Cameron 1912) [=Anacryptus ferrugineus; incl. Paranacryptus hyalinus Girault 1915, P. sanguineus Girault 1915, Epitranus sanguineus] B88

Epitranus teleute (Walker 1838) [=Smiera teleute; incl. Chalcitella australiensis Girault 1913, Neoanacryptus hyalipennis Girault 1915, *N. petiolatus Girault 1913, N. regificus Girault 1915, Chalcitella piceiventris Cameron 1912] 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).