Revision of the Oriental genera of Agathidinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) with an emphasis on Thailand and interactive keys to genera published in three different formats
Author
Sharkey, Michael
Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington ,, United States of America
Author
Yu, Dicky
University of Kentucky, Lexington ,,
Author
van Noort, Simon
Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
Author
Seltmann, Katja
American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States of America
Author
Penev, Lyubomir
Institute of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Earinus
Wesmael, 1837
Type
species:
Microdus delusor
Wesmael, 1837
.
Diatmetus
Förster, 1862
, first synonymized by
Szépligeti (1904)
and confirmed by
Muesebeck (1927)
,
Watanabe (1937)
, Mueseback and Walkley (1951),
Shenefelt (1970)
,
Gupta and Bhat (1974)
,
Bhat and Gupta (1977)
,
Marsh (1979)
,
Chou and Sharkey (1989)
and
Braet (2002)
.
Type
species:
Microdus gloriator
Nees, 1812
.
Distribution:
Holarctic, Oriental, austral region of South America, especially diverse in cold temperate areas. Species described from
Chile
as
Earinus
are sister to the Hol- arctic and Oriental clade (
Sharkey et al. 2006
). Th ere are no records from
Thailand
but we have captured one specimen.
Figure 26
.
Earinus
sp.
a
lateral habitus
b
forewing
Diversity
:
15 species are described world-wide, and 3 from the
Oriental region
.
Bhat and Gupta (1977)
recorded only one species from the
Oriental region
. There are many undescribed species in Austral South America.
Biology
:
Most host records are on
Noctuidae
and
Tortricidae
.
Phylogenetic
Information.
Sister to all other
Earinini
(
Sharkey et al. 2006
; and new unpublished data).
Diagnosis
:
This is the only agathidine genus in the
Oriental region
with a complete
RS
+M vein in the fore wing (
Fig. 26b
).