Braconid wasps (Hymenoptera) of Reunion. 1. Euphorinae (including Meteorini): key to species and description of six new species
Author
Rousse, Pascal
Author
Braet, Yves
text
Zootaxa
2012
3449
26
46
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.214581
732008d8-73e6-460d-bae2-8a8e344b76c0
1175-5326
214581
Genus
Cosmophorus
Ratzeburg
Antenna with 11–21 flagellomeres, apical flagellomere without a spine. Toruli protruding as much as width of scape, anterior margin raised in one or two sharp points. Maxillary and labial palpi with, respectively, 4 and 1 segments. Face wider than clypeus. Median frontal carina often extending to median ocellus. Vertex flattened, without groove medially or shallowly depressed. Anterior ocellus usually at same level as posterior ones. Occipital carina present, interrupted medio-dorsally, ventrally straight and joining hypostomal carina. Mandible robust, nearly as broad basally as apically, lower tooth medium or small but distinct. Subocular sulcus absent. Prepectal carina present. Mesopleuron smooth to partly rugose. Forewing with
Rs+M
,
r-m
and
R1
absent,
2/ Cu
and
3/Cu
at the same level.
Hind
wing with
A
absent,
2/Sc+R
short to medium sized. Dorsope absent. Ovipositor straight or slightly sinuated apically, at most somewhat wavy.
Cosmophorus
spp. are parasitoids of adults barkboring and woodboring
Scolytidae
and
Curculionidae (Coleoptera)
. This is a small genus of about 30 species, worldwide distributed but not reported to date from South
America
.