Pediobius Walker, 1846

Cao, Huan-Xi, Salle, John La & Zhu, Chao-Dong, 2017, Chinese species of Pediobius Walker (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), Zootaxa 4240 (1), pp. 1-71 : 7

Pediobius Walker, 1846

Microterus Spinola, 1811: 151 –152. Type species: Diplolepis petiolatus Spinola , by subsequent designation of Gahan & Fagan, 1923: 89. Synonymized by Bouček, 1965a: 7. Rejected in favor of Pediobius Walker by Hansson, 2002: 146. Pediobius Walker, 1846: 184 (as a subgenus of Entedon Dalman ). Type species: Entedon (Pediobius) imbreus Walker , by subsequent designation of Ashmead, 1904a: 344, 384.

Pleurotropis Förster, 1856: 78 , 82. Type species: Pleurotropis isomerus Förster , by subsequent designation of Förster 1861: xxxvii. Synonymized by Ferrière, 1953: 400.

Noyes (2016) provides a complete list of synonymy and this is not repeated here.

Diagnosis. Bouček (1965a) and Hansson (2002) should be consulted for a generic diagnosis. Bouček (1965a) proposed a general definition of Pediobius and Hansson (2002) provided some additional diagnostic characters (e.g., the interrupted posterior margin of the prepectus) and broadened the taxonomic range of the genus. In addition, through our study, we found species of this genus usually have the submedian area of the propodeum depressed along the anterior margin. The apomorphies of Pediobius and characters that differentiate it from other similar genera of Entedoninae were discussed by Hansson (2002) and Hansson & Nishida (2002).