Dacnusini Förster, 1863

Godfray, Charles J. & Achterberg, Cornelis Van, 2024, Annotated Checklist of the European Dacnusini and the Dapsilarthra genus group of the Alysiini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Alysiinae), Zootaxa 5513 (1), pp. 1-73 : 7

Tribe Dacnusini Förster, 1863

Hosts: Hypothesis —Parasitoids of cyclorrhaphan Diptera with many species attacking leaf miners in the family Agromyzidae . Evidence —Summary of evidence below, no confirmed records from other host groups outside Europe. Comment— Some host records listed in Taxapad are almost certainly incorrect. All hosts are acalypterate Diptera except for those of Synelix semirugosa . Eggs are laid in host larvae except in some members of the Coelinius genus group where the host egg is attacked ( Greene 1914; Mook 1962). The adult invariably emerges from the host puparium ( Shaw & Huddleston 1991).

Notes: For keys to genera (in English) see Griffiths (I-875), Tobias (1986) and Wharton (1997) (the best illustrated, and though for North America, covers most genera).