Rhaconotus Ruthe

Belokobylskij, Sergey A. & Kula, Robert R., 2012, Review of the brachypterous, micropterous, and apterous Braconidae of the cyclostome lineage (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) from the Palearctic Region 3240, Zootaxa 3240 (1), pp. 1-62 : 10

Genus Rhaconotus Ruthe

Rhaconotus is represented in all zoogeographic regions; about 110 described species are known mainly from the Oriental and Afrotropical regions. It was not recovered as monophyletic in cladistic analyses based on nuclear 28S rDNA and mitochondrial COI ( Zaldivar-Riverón et al. 2008a). Thus, Rhaconotus is in need of revision given the aforementioned analyses and morphological heterogeneity among species in the genus. Wing size is reduced in only two species: Rhaconotus brachypterus (Hesse) from South Africa and Rhaconotus hispanicus Belokobylskij from Europe and North Africa. Neither species has the mesosoma modified substantially ( Hesse 1934; Belokobylskij 2001).