Muscidifurax
Muscidifurax raptor
Smeagolia
Smeagolia perplexa
A taxonomic study of Muscidifurax Girault & Sanders from China (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae)
Xiao, Hui
Zhou, Shi-yu
Tong, Yan-feng
ZooKeys
2018
776
91
103
5VVW
7428
Girault & Sanders, 1910
Girault & Sanders
1910
Insecta
Pteromalidae
Muscidifurax
CoL
Animalia
Muscidifurax
Hymenoptera
0
91
Arthropoda
genus
MuscidifuraxGirault & Sanders, 1910: 146. Muscidifurax raptorGirault & Sanders, 1910: 146; original designation and monotypy. Kogan and Legner 1970: 1268-1290; Propp 1984: 705; Narendran et al. 2006: 29-34. [Type species.] SmeagoliaHedqvist, 1973: 237. Type species: Smeagolia perplexaHedqvist. Synonymized by Boucek1991: 203.
Diagnosis. Body dark green, head, and mesosoma with distinctly white hairs, eye glabrous. Head wider than mesosoma, occipital carina strong. Antennal insertion placed on lower ocular line and face distinctly protuberant at antennal insertion; lower face receding almost horizontally. Antenna slender, formula 11173 in females, 11263 in males; lower margin of clypeus more or less incised medially, without median tooth. Pronotal collar margined; notauli incomplete; scutellum flattened; propodeum with median carina and complete plicae, nucha short but distinct. Marginal vein strongly thickened in proximal half (its lower margin distinctly sinuate) and progressively thinner in distal half. Gaster flattened dorsally, hind margin of Gt1 trilobed.
Biology. Hosts include Calliphoridae( Chrysomyasp., Phormiasp.) and Muscidae( Fannia canicularis, Fannia femoralis, Musca domestica, Stomoxyssp. and Stomoxys calcitrans) ( Noyes 2017).
Distribution. Palaearctic, Nearctic, Afrotropics, Neotropics, and Australasian regions (Noyes, 2017). China: Beijing, Shandong ( Guo et al. 1997).