Achrysocharoides Girault (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) new to tropical America, with eight new species

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    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 languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)79-108
    JournalZooKeys
    Volume173
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012

    Subject classification (UKÄ)

    • Zoology

    Free keywords

    • Neotropical
    • leafminer parasitoids
    • Gracillariidae
    • Gliricidia sepium
    • identification key
    • Chalcidoidea
    • Entedoninae
    • Kratoysma
    • junior synonym
    • recombination

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