Sierola Cameron, 1881

Wang, Chung-Hong, He, Jun-Hua & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2021, Taxonomy of Sierola Cameron (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from China with three new species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 84, pp. 405-415 : 405

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scientific name	Sierola Cameron, 1881
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Treatment

Sierola Cameron 1881: 556. Type species: Sierola testaceipes Cameron, 1881.

Lelejola Gorbatovsky, 1998: 680. Type species: Sierola ashmeadi Gorbatovsky, 1995. Synonymized by Terayama, 2006: 235.

Diagnosis.

Antenna with 11 flagellomeres; notauli absent; pre-and pterostigma large; forewing with five closed cells.

Biology.

The Sierola species are parasitoids of lepidopterous larvae, e.g., Batrachedridae , Cosmopterigidae , Gelechiidae , Gracillariidae , Pyraustidae , Tineidae , Tortricidae ( Azevedo et al. 2018) and Elachistidae (current data).

Distribution.

253 species as well as subspecies, including the new species described in this paper, are known to world, mainly distributed in circum-Pacific belt (Table 1 View Table 1 ).