Antrocephalus
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chalcididae
Name
Antrocephalus Kirby, 1883 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Antrocephalus Kirby, 1883: 54, 63. Type species: Halticella fascicornis Walker; designated by Kirby (1883)[1].
- Coelochalcis Cameron, 1904: 110. Type species: Coelochalcis carinifrons Cameron; by monotypy (synonymised with Antrocephalus by Narendran (1986)[2]).
- Dilla Strand, 1911: 210. Type species: Antrocephalus rufipes Kieffer; by original designation (synonymised with Antrocephalus by Steffan (1953)[3]).
- Stomatoceroides Girault, 1913b: 140. Type species: Stomatoceroides bicolor Girault; by original designation. (synonymised with Antrocephalus by Bouček (1988b)[4]).
- Metarretocera Girault, 1927: 325. Type species: Metarretocera bursi Girault, by monotypy (synonymised with Antrocephalus by Bouček (1988b)[4]).
- Tainania Masi, 1929: 159. Type species Tainania acutiventris Masi, by original designation (synonymised by Narendran, 1977 with Antrocephalus).
- Sabatiella Masi, 1929c: 167–168. Type species: Sabatiella nigra Masi, by original designation (synonymised with Antrocephalus by Habu (1960)[5]).
- Stomatocerella Girault, 1930: [4]. Type species: Stomatocerella anna Girault; by monotypy (synonymised with Antrocephalus by Bouček (1988b)[4]).
- Uxa Girault, 1930:4. Type species Stomatoceroides clariscapus Dodd; by original designation [synonymized with Antrocephalus by Bouček (1988b)[4]].
- Dillisca Ghesquière, 1946: 367. Replacement name for Dilla Strand considered to be preoccupied by Dila Fisher de Waldheim (synonymized with Antrocephalus by Steffan (1953)[3]).
Diagnosis
The genus Antrocephalus is a difficult genus to define its limits. This is because the genus comes very close to Hockeria and rarely also to Kriechbaumerella. Only with extensive expertise in the taxonomy of these genera one can authoritatively identify this genus, which in future perhaps will be more reliably possible by using molecular markers.
Description
Head with a horse shoe-shaped carina running behind anterior ocellus; scrobe fairly deep and reaching anterior ocellus; pronotum with anterior carinae and often with submedian tubercles in majority of species; apex of scutellum variable; geno-temporal margin with or without geno-temporal furrow; metasoma usually with two submedian short or long carinae in most species.
Hosts
Pupae of Lepidoptera.
Distribution
Europe, Asia, Australia and New Guinea. Apparently introduced in South America (Bouček 1988b[4]).
Variation
There is a wide variation of the general characters. In some species the pronotal carina and tubercles are weak or absent; in a few species the scrobe is shallow, not very deep as in typical species, in some others the metasoma without basal carinae on T1 indistinct.
Key to Vietnamese species of Antrocephalus Kirby (based on females)
Taxon Treatment
- Narendran, T; van Achterberg, C; 2016: Revision of the family Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from Vietnam, with the description of 13 new species ZooKeys, (576): 1-202. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Kirby W (1883) Remarks on the genera of the subfamily Chalcidinae, with synonymic notes and descriptions of new species of Leucospidinae and Chalcidinae. Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 17: 53–78. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1883.tb00236.x
- ↑ Narendran T (1986) Family Chalcididae. In: Subba Rao B Hayat M (Eds) The Chalcidoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of India and the adjacent countries. Oriental Insects 20: 11–41, 307–310. doi: 10.1080/00305316.1986.10433716
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Steffan J (1953) Les espèces françaises de Haltichellinae (Hyménoptères Chalcididae) (suite). Cahier des Naturalistes, Bulletin des Naturalistes Parisiens (n. s.) 8(1/2): 7–12.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Bouček Z (1988b) Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) – A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International, Wallingford, 832 pp.
- ↑ Habu A (1960) A revision of the Chalcididae (Hymenoptera) of Japan with description of sixteen new species. Bulletin of National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Tokyo (C) 11: 131–363.
