Disophrys Foester, 1862

Sharkey, Michael, Yu, Dicky, van Noort, Simon, Seltmann, Katja & Penev, Lyubomir, 2009, Revision of the Oriental genera of Agathidinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) with an emphasis on Thailand and interactive keys to genera published in three different formats, ZooKeys 21 (2), pp. 19-54 : 40-41

Disophrys Foester, 1862

Type species: Agathis caesa Klug, 1835 .

Megagathis Costa, 1888 , first synonymized by Marshall (1900), and confirmed by Papp (1993), Simbolotti and van Achterberg (1999) and Belokobyskij et al. (2003). The type of Megagathis , Agathis imperalis Costa, 1888 , was treated by Marshall (1900) as a junior synonym of Disophrys caesa (Klug, 1835) , thereby effectively synonymizing the genera.

Pseudagathis Kriechbaumer, 1894 , first synonymized by Szépligeti (1904) and confirmed by Brues (1926), Watanabe (1937), Shenefelt (1970) and Chou and Sharkey (1989). Type species: Pseudagathis calabarica Kriechbaumer, 1894 .

Diophrys Kriechbaumer, 1898 . Unjustified emendation for Disophrys Foerster.

Pseudocremnops Szépligeti, 1915 , synonymized by Sharkey et al. (2006). Type species: Pseudocremnops atripennis Szépligeti, 1915 .

Distribution: Old World, primarily tropical: African, Oriental, and Australian regions, with a few Palaearctic species. No specimens have been recorded from Thailand but we have collected four species represented by 5 specimens, suggesting that there are considerably more.

Diversity: Bhat and Gupta (1977) recorded 23 species from the Oriental region and Bhat (1978) added 2 new Oriental species.

Biology: Most host records are on Noctuidae and the short ovipositors suggest that exposed hosts are attacked.

Phylogenetic Information. Sister to all other Disophrini that were included in the Sharkey et al. (2006) analyses.

Diagnosis: Lateral carina of frons lamellate (high and thin) (Fig. 11b); ovipositor barely exerted or sometimes hidden by hypopygium ( Fig. 25a); second cubital cell quadrate, not narrowed anteriorly ( Fig. 25b); foretibial spur not as long as basitarsus (as in Fig. 4b); hind trochantellus lacking carinae ventrally (as in Fig. 3b).