Myiocephalus Marshall, 1898

Li, Jun, Achterberg, Cornelis van, Zheng, Min-Lin & Chen, Jia-Hua, 2020, A new species of Myiocephalus Marshall (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae) from China, ZooKeys 933, pp. 95-105 : 95

Myiocephalus Marshall, 1898

Loxocephalus Foerster, 1863: 252. Type species (by monotypy): Loxocephalus longipes Foerster, 1863 [= Myiocephalus boops (Wesmael, 1835)]. Unavailable name.

Myiocephalus Marshall [in André], 1898: 218; Chen and van Achterberg 1997: 74; Belokobylskij 2000: 372. Type species (by monotypy): Microctonus boops Wesmael, 1835.

Spilomma Morley, 1909: 211. Type species (by monotypy): Spilomma falconivibrans Morley, 1909 [= Myiocephalus boops (Wesmael, 1835)]. Synonymized with Myiocephalus Marshall by Muesebeck (1936).

Diagnosis.

Laterope large, deep and submedially situated in slender first tergite; head in dorsal view strongly transverse and usually slightly concave anteriorly; eyes enlarged and protruding; clypeus rather narrow; scapus slightly or not enlarged and subequal to or shorter than third antennal segment; maxillary palpi with five segments, labial palpi with three segments; vein 1-SR+M of fore wing absent; vein 1-R1 longer than pterostigma; vein M+CU1 largely unsclerotized; middle and hind legs elongated; metasoma of ♀ strongly compressed with fifth sternite of ♀ finger-like protruding posteriorly; hypopygium of ♀ with long setae apically or hypopygium medially membranous. ( Tan et al. 2019).

Distribution.

Nearctic, Palaearctic and Oriental regions.

Biology.

Unknown.