Grammospila
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Braconidae
Name
Grammospila Foerster, 1863 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Grammospila Foerster, 1863: 269. Type species (by monotypy): Alysiaisabella Haliday, 1838 [lost?].
- Paraorthostigma Königsmann, 1972: 25. Type species (by monotypy): Paraorthostigmatirolense Königsmann, 1972 [examined]. Synonymised with Dapsilarthra Foerster, 1863 by van Achterberg (1983)[1] and with Grammospila Foerster, 1863 by van Achterberg (2014)[2].
Description
Antenna with 27–41 segments, third segment 1.2–1.5 times as long as fourth segment (in Palaearctic spp.); head comparatively robust in dorsal view (Fig. 11); anterior tentorial pit large and with triangular flat area between pit and eye above curved up ventral rim (Figs 3, 10); area between mandibular base and ventro-posterior margin of eye convex or flat, without oblique depression, without malar suture; anterior tentorial pits concave, pit-shaped, and remaining removed from eyes; mandible with 3 teeth or lobes; ventral margin of mandible straight (Fig. 2); notauli absent posteriorly; mesoscutum with medio-posterior depression; length of vein 3-SR of fore wing more than 1.2 times vein 2-SR; length of vein r of fore wing 0.2–0.3 times vein 2-SR; diagonal width of first discal cell of fore wing often 1.4–1.6 times vein 1-M; vein 2-1A of fore wing sclerotized, as usually vein CU1b; vein 1-SR of fore wing distinct, resulting in a petiolate first discal cell; vein r of fore wing emitted from basal 0.3–0.5 of pterostigma; first subdiscal cell of fore wing parallel-sided or nearly so; vein m-cu of hind wing absent; pterostigma narrowly elliptical; first metasomal tergite parallel-sided behind spiracles or nearly so, with deep dorsope and laterope, its spiracles facing dorsad; apical third of ovipositor sheath evenly setose.
Biology
Endoparasitoids of Agromyzidae and Scathophagidae larvae. Grammospilaisabella (Haliday), has been reared from Scathophagidae (Americinavittata (Meigen, 1826) mining in Paris sp.; first record; RMNH).
Distribution
Palaearctic and NE Oriental. Seven species.
Key to species of the genus Grammospila Foerster
'Taxon Treatment
- Achterberg, C; 2018: Notes on Grammospila Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae), with description of a new species Journal of Hymenoptera Research, (65): 131-140. doi
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Other References
- ↑ van Achterberg C (1983) Revisionary notes on the genera Dapsilarthra auct. and Mesocrina Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae).Tijdschrift voor Entomologie126: 1–24.
- ↑ van Achterberg C (2014) Notes on the checklist of Braconidae (Hymenoptera) from Switzerland.Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft87: 191–213.
