Abstract
The genus Achrysocharoides Girault is here reported for the first time from tropical America. Included are ten species, eight newly described: A. asperulus, A. callisetosus, A. cuspidatus, A. foveatus, A. infuscus, A. mediocarinatus, A. purpureus, A. sulcatus, and two already known: A. ecuadorensis (Hansson) and A. gliricidiae (Hansson & Cave). All species are included in an identification key, diagnosed, described and illustrated. Only one of the species, A. gliricidiae, has a host record, an endoparasitoid in a leafmining Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) on Gliricidia sepium (Fabaceae), thus conforming to the biology of extralimital Achrysocharoides species. The genus Kratoysma Bouček is here established as a junior synonym of Achrysocharoides, and the following species previously in Kratoysma are here recombined to Achrysocharoides: K. citri Bouček, K. ecuadorensis Hansson, K. gliricidiae Hansson & Cave, K. longifacies Hansson, K. nepalensis Hansson, Derostenus usticrus Erdös.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 79-108 |
| Journal | ZooKeys |
| Volume | 173 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Zoology
Free keywords
- Neotropical
- leafminer parasitoids
- Gracillariidae
- Gliricidia sepium
- identification key
- Chalcidoidea
- Entedoninae
- Kratoysma
- junior synonym
- recombination