Thaumatodryinus R. Perkins, 1905

Olmi, Massimo, Copeland, Robert S. & Noort, Simon Van, 2019, Dryinidae of the Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea), Zootaxa 4630 (1), pp. 1-619 : 382

12. Genus Thaumatodryinus R. Perkins, 1905

Thaumatodryinus R. Perkins 1905: 58 ; Kieffer in Kieffer & Marshall 1906: 490; Kieffer 1914b: 16; Krombein 1952: 97; 1958: 98; 1979: 1243; Olmi 1984: 683; 1993b: 61; Virla & Olmi 2008: 370; Moya Raygoza & Olmi 2010: 98; Azevedo et al. 2010: 892; Xu et al. 2013: 242; Olmi & Virla 2014: 325; Tribull 2015: 20.

Type species. Thaumatodryinus koebelei R. Perkins 1905 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. ♀ ( Figs 156C, D ) and ♂ ( Figs 157A, B ): see above diagnosis of the subfamily Thaumatodryininae .

Distribution. Worldwide, except Palaearctic region.

Hosts. Flatidae ( Guglielmino et al. 2013) .

World species. 33 species are known, ten in the Afrotropical region.

Remarks. One fossil species ( Thaumatodryinus miocenicus Olmi 1995 ) was described in amber from the Dominican Republic. Brues (1923, 1933) described three fossil species of Thaumatodryinus from Baltic amber; they are now attributed to Harpactosphecion Haupt.

Figures

FIGURE 156. A, B: Pseudodryinus sp.: ♂ in dorsal (A) and lateral (B) view. C, D: Thaumatodryinus sp.: ♀ in dorsal (C) and lateral (D) view. Scale bar: A: 2.30 mm; B: 1.76 mm; C: 3.74 mm; D: 4.63 mm.

FIGURE 157. A, B: Thaumatodryinus sp.: ♂ in dorsal (A) and lateral (B) view (p = pterostigma; r = PostabR1). C: tuft of long setae on antenna of Thaumatodryinus sp. ♀. D: Thaumatodryinus merinus Olmi, ♂ holotype in dorsal view. Scale bar: A: 3.03 mm; B: 2.09 mm; D: 2.21 mm.