Bracon (Lucobracon) variator subsp. Subgenus, Lucobracon Fahringer, 1927

Li, Yang, He, Jun-hua & Chen, Xue-xin, 2020, The subgenera Glabrobracon Fahringer, Lucobracon Fahringer and Uncobracon Papp of the genus Bracon Fabricius (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae) in China, with the description of eleven new species, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 67 (2), pp. 209-252 : 209

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Subgenus Lucobracon Fahringer, 1927 Figs 13 View Figure 13 , 14 View Figure 14 , 15 View Figure 15 , 16 View Figure 16 , 17 View Figure 17 , 18 View Figure 18 , 19 View Figure 19 , 20 View Figure 20 , 21 View Figure 21 , 22 View Figure 22

Bracon (Lucobracon) Fahringer, 1927: 248; Type species: Bracon lautus Szépligeti, 1901 (Designated by van Achterberg & Polaszek, 1996: 26; existing designation of Bracon suchorukovi Telenga, 1936, is invalid because it was not included by Fahringer).

Bracon (Lucobracon) Fahringer: Tobias 1957: 497, subgeneric rank; Tobias 1958: 82, 1959: 887; Papp 1966: 374, 1974: 415; Shenefelt 1978: 1615; Tobias 1986: 137.

Lucobracon Fahringer: Tobias 1969: 424, 1971: 212, 1972: 585.

Diagnosis.

Antenna usually distinctly shorter than body, often thickened, with quadrate flagellomeres; hypoclypeal depression large, usually much wider than its distance from eye; maxillary palpi usually shorter than height of head; first submarginal cell of fore wing vein SR1 often reduced, terminating preapically, rarely reaching tip of wing; second submarginal cell of fore wing small to medium-sized; middle of second to fourth metasomal tergites usually sculptured, rarely entirely smooth; ovipositor sheath often shorter than metasoma, at least clearly shorter than body.

Biology.

Most species are idiobiont ectoparasitoids of larvae of Coleoptera ( Anobiidae , Buprestidae , Cerambycidae , Chrysomelidae , Curculionidae ) and of Lepidoptera ( Coleophoridae , Cosmopterigidae , Gelechiidae , Nepticulidae , Noctuidae , Sesiidae , Tortricidae ) and some species are parasitoids of larvae of Diptera ( Tephritidae ) and of Hymenoptera ( Cynipidae , Eurytomidae , Tenthredinidae , Cephidae ) ( Yu et al. 2016).

Distribution.

Afrotropical; Oriental; Palaearctic.

Note.

Of three species including (viz. Bracon (L.) infernalis Telenga, 1936, Bracon (L.) jacobsoni Telenga, 1936, and Bracon (L.) mirus Szépligeti, 1901), no specimens were available for this study and the distribution of these species is listed in the key.