Augerella Gupta, 1962

Pham, Nhi Thi, Broad, Gavin R. & Wägele, Wolfgang J., 2013, A review of the Theronia genus-group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from Vietnam with descriptions of five new species, Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 47 (23 - 24), pp. 1501-1538 : 1505

Augerella Gupta, 1962

Theronia (Augerella) Gupta, 1962: 86 . Type: Theronia (Augerella) orientalis orientalis Gupta ; original designation.

Augerella Gupta : Gupta (1987).

Diagnosis

Mandible teeth equal in length; clypeus without tubercles or swellings, flat, basally slightly raised or basally strongly convex and apically deeply concave; frons with or without a short vertical carina between antennal sockets; notaulus indistinct or shallow present anteriorly; epicnemial carina present on lower half of mesopleuron, erased on upper half; ovipositor with tip compressed laterally, upper valve with tip bulb-like or with oblique ridges near apex.

Gupta (1962) recognized three species of Augerella : A. orientalis (Gupta) from India, Malaysia and the Philippines, A. compressa (Gupta) and A. inserta (Gupta) , both from the Philippines. Pham et al. (2010) recorded A. orientalis as new for Vietnam and Pham et al. (2011) described two new species, A. achterbergi and A. vriesi .

Cushman (1933) described Theronia brevicauda from Taiwan, which was subsequently transferred to Nomosphecia by Gupta (1962). Our examination of the holotype of this species, which is deposited at DEI, showed that the upper and lower teeth of the mandible are equal in length and the ovipositor tip is compressed, which fits the diagnosis of Augerella . In fact, the holotype of T. brevicauda is a specimen of Augerella orientalis ( Gupta 1962) . Theronia (Augerella) orientalis Gupta, 1962 is therefore a junior synonym (syn. nov.) of Augerella brevicauda ( Cushman 1933) , which is a new combination.