Embolemus Westwood, 1833

Moghaddam, Mostafa Ghafouri, Mohebban, Shahla, Olmi, Massimo, Rahmani, Zahra, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Arias-Penna, Diana Carolina & Ahmad, Zubair, 2022, Revision of Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) from the Middle East, Zootaxa 5138 (3), pp. 305-323 : 311

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5138.3.5
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6559808
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scientific name	Embolemus Westwood, 1833
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Genus Embolemus Westwood, 1833 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species. Embolemus ruddii Westwood, 1833 : holotype, male— Yorkshire , England, UK, OUMNH, ( Figs 3A– 3K View FIGURE 3 ).

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE, ♂: UNITED KINGDOM, England , Yorkshire, Rev. (Reverend) G. T. Rudd (George Thomas Rudd) coll., des. H. Hilpert 1987, Embolemus ruddii Phil. Mag., W. Rudd, OUMNH.

Diagnosis (Male). Antenna filiform, first antennomere shorter or slightly longer than third antennomere ( Fig. 3A View FIGURE 3 ); head swollen in dorsal view ( Fig. 3F View FIGURE 3 ); face with two convergent longitudinal and median sutures from clypeus to antennal toruli; ocelli distinct ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ); labial 2 or 3-palpomeres ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ); maxillary 4 or 6-palpomeres, third maxillary palpomere broadened ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ); macropterous, fore wing usually with Costal (C), Radial (R), first cubital (1Cu), and first medial (1M) cells enclosed by pigmented veins, second cubital (2Cu) cell almost always open, first medial (1M) cell occasionally open ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ); tibial spurs formula 1/2/2 ( Fig. 3A View FIGURE 3 ).

Distribution. Worldwide, except Antarctica ( Olmi 1996, 1997; Chény et al. 2020).

World species. 39 species ( Perkovsky et al. 2020; Olmi et al. 2020).

Host. Parasitoids of nymphs of Cixiidae ( Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha) living in the soil and feeding on roots ( Olmi et al. 2014).

Type species status. Type specimen is glued to the triangular card on its ventral side and in good condition. Left antennomeres with the last four missing.