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 text ZooKeys 2009 2009-09-23 21 2 19 54 journal article 22775 10.3897/zookeys.21.271 43ac2ba6-f435-4404-8ba9-e321c0396b48 1313–2970 576524 4ED41545-BCA4-4F84-B4C6-647F7DE849EB 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 Sister to all other Earinini ( Sharkey et al. 2006 ; and new unpublished data).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 ).