Leluthia Cameron , 1887

Li, Tao, Achterberg, Cornelis Van & Xu, Zhi-Chun, 2015, A new species of genus Leluthia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitizing Agrilus sp. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from China with a key to the East Palaearctic species, Zootaxa 4048 (4), pp. 594-600 : 595

Genus Leluthia Cameron, 1887

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Leluthia Cameron, 1887: 392 . Type species (designated by Viereck, 1914): Leluthia mexicana Cameron, 1887 (examined).

Doryctosoma Picard, 1938: 142. Type species (by monotypy): Doryctosoma paradoxum Picard, 1938 (examined). Treated as synonym of Euhecabolodes Tobias, 1962 , by Belokobylskij & Tobias (1986).

Russellia Muesebeck, 1950: 78 (preoccupied by Russellia Varga, 1943 ). Type species (by original designation): Heterospilus astigma Ashmead, 1896 . Synonymized by Marsh (1967).

Russellella Muesebeck & Walkley, 1951: 178. New name for Russellia Muesebeck, 1950 .

Euhecabolodes Tobias, 1962: 1191 . Type species (by original designation): Euhecabolodes minutus Tobias, 1962 (examined). Synonymized with Doryctosoma Picard, 1938, by Belokobylskij & Tobias (1986) and treated as subgenus of Leluthia Cameron, 1887 , by Belokobylskij (1998).

Panama Marsh, 1993: 27. Type species (by original designation): Panama canalia Marsh, 1993. Synonymized with Leluthia Cameron, 1887 , by Belokobylskij et al. (2004).

Diagnosis. First subdiscal cell of fore wing with distinct opening postero-apically, vein CU1b absent ( Figs 11-12 ); vein 2-SR of fore wing complete; vein r-m of fore wing often absent or nearly so; vein 1-R1 of fore wing at most slightly longer than pterostigma; vein r of fore wing departing basally from middle from pterostigma; hind wing of ♂ with a pterostigma ( Fig. 12 ); vein 1-M of hind wing shorter than vein M+CU ( Fig. 11 ); vein 1r-m of hind wing slightly oblique and shorter than veins 1-M or SC+R; wings with distinct apical fringe of setae; vertex sculptured; mesoscutum with striae or rugae medio-posteriorly; mesosternal sulcus narrow; second tergite often with oblique sublateral grooves.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Leluthia chinensis Li & van Achterberg, sp. nov., female, holotype. Habitus, lateral aspect.

FIGURES 2 – 10. Leluthia chinensis Li & van Achterberg, sp. nov., female, holotype. 2. Head, anterior aspect. 3. Head, dorsal aspect. 4. Basal antennal segments. 5. Mesosoma, dorsal aspect. 6. Mesosoma, lateral aspect. 7. Hind coxa and femur, lateral aspect. 8. Hind tibia, lateral aspect. 9. Hind tarsus, lateral aspect. 10. Metasoma, dorsal aspect.

FIGURES 11 – 12. Leluthia chinensis Li & van Achterberg, sp. nov., female, holotype, but 12 of male paratype. Wings.