Opiostomus Fischer, 1972

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Opiostomus Fischer, 1972 stat. n.

Opiostomus Fischer, 1972a: 389 (as subgenus of Opius Wesmael, 1835). Type species (by monotypy): Opius kovacsi Fischer, 1963.

Snoflakopius Fischer, 1972b: 70, 177 (as subgenus of Opius Wesmael, 1835) Type species (by original designation): Opius snoflaki Fischer, 1959 [examined]. Syn. n.

Jucundopius Fischer, 1984a: 34 (as subgenus of Opius Wesmael, 1835), 1998: 22, 24-25 (as subgenus in the genus Eurytenes Wesmael, 1836). Type species (by original designation): Opius (Jucundopius) jucundicola Fischer, 1984 [examined]. Syn. n.

Opiotenes Fischer, 1998: 23 (as subgenus of Eurytenes Wesmael, 1836). Type species (by original designation): Opius leptostigma Wesmael, 1835 [examined].Syn. n.

Oetztalotenes Fischer, 1998: 22-23 (as subgenus of Eurytenes Wesmael, 1836). Type species (by original designation): Eurytenes (Oetztalotenes) oetztalicola Fischer, 1998 [examined].Syn. n.

Diagnosis.

Hypoclypeal depression absent or narrow, and medially ventral margin of clypeus near upper level of condyli of mandibles ("mouth closed"); mandible strongly twisted, its second tooth hardly visible in lateral view, and with a medium-sized to large ventro-basal tooth, but minute or obsolescent in the subgenus Snoflakopius Fischer (stat. n.); pronope usually absent and at most medium-sized; pterostigma sublinear; vein 3-SR of fore wing 1.4 times vein 2-SR or longer; hind coxae normal, rounded ventrally; second-fourth tarsal segments comparatively slender; telotarsus and arolium not enlarged; dorsope usually large and close to lateral margin of first tergite; hypopygium of female at most slightly incised.

Biology.

Parasitoids of Agromyzidae .

Distribution.

Holarctic, Afrotropical, northern Oriental.

Notes.

Ranked as a genus, because it does not fit in Opius and, according to its morphology, it is different from other genera with dorsope present.