Alaptus, Westwood, 1839

Huber, John T., Read, Jennifer D. & Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2021, Illustrated key to the genera and catalogue of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) in the Afrotropical region, Zootaxa 5036 (1), pp. 1-166 : 50-51

Alaptus group: Alaptus , Callodicopus , Dicopomorpha , Dicopus , Litus .

Anagrus group: Allanagrus , Anagrus , Dorya , Omyomymar , Paranaphoidea , Schizophragma .

Anaphes group: Anaphes , Erythmelus .

Arescon group: Arescon .

Australomymar group: Australomymar .

Borneomymar group: Borneomymar , Chrysoctonus .

Camptoptera group: Camptoptera , Camptopteroides , Ptilomymar , Stephanocampta .

Cleruchus group: Cleruchus , Cleruchoides , Eubroncus , Platystethynium .

Gonatocerus group: Cosmocomopsis , Gonatocerus , Heptagonatocerus , Lymaenon , Octomicromeris , Tanyxiphium , Zeyanus .

Ooctonus group: Ooctonus .

Polynema group: Acmopolynema , Ganomymar , Mymar , Mymarilla , Palaeoneura , Polynema , Stephanodes .

These 11 groups are almost the same as those proposed in Lin et al. (2007) but their Anagroidea group is here subsumed under the Cleruchus group and their Eustochomorpha group apparently does not occur in the Afrotropical region. Their Ooctonus group was mistakenly stated to include Ooctonus (not yet recorded from Australia) instead of the endemic genus Boudiennyia Girault. However , the Borneomymar group, which was not recored from Australia in 2007 has since been found in the Australasian region; it includes Chrysoctonoides Huber & Triapitsyn, described from New Caledonia and American Samoa ( Huber & Triapitsyn 2015). Whether the genera should be placed in the Borneomymar group or in the Eustocomorpha group is uncertain but if placed in the Eustochomorpha group then that group would also be present in the Afrotropical region and both the Australian region and the Afrotropical region share all 11 genus groups. Noyes & Valentine (1989) proposed a genus-group classification that is different from the Lin et al. (2007). Most, if not all, of the New Zealand genera they described would fit in the above groups. Only two of their new genera, Allanagrus and Dorya , have been found in the Afrotropical region.

Until formal cladistic analyses, preferably complemented with molecular data, are completed, the above informal groups of genera serve conveniently to compare structural features among what appear to be morphologically similar genera. Ongoing studies of relationships using both morphological and molecular data for as many of the described world genera as possible should eventually result in a formal and more stable classification of subfamilies and tribes. Such classifications had been proposed several times but were abandoned as being unsatisfactory, at least at the tribal level, as well as being contradictory, e.g., Annecke & Doutt (1961) illustrated one classification, and Debauche (1948) and Schauff (1984) illustrated the other. Over the past two decades, only one of the above groups of genera has been again treated formally as a tribe: Gonatocerini (Huber 2015).