Bracon Fabricius

Belokobylskij, Sergey A. & Kula, Robert R., 2012, Review of the brachypterous, micropterous, and apterous Braconidae of the cyclostome lineage (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) from the Palearctic Region 3240, Zootaxa 3240 (1), pp. 1-62 : 38

Genus Bracon Fabricius

Bracon contains about 830 described species placed in 16 subgenera; slightly more than half are known from the Northern Hemisphere ( Yu et al. 2005). In the Palearctic Region most species are found in the south and often occur in arid or semi-arid areas. A new micropterous species of Bracon from Algeria is described below. It is the first species of Braconinae known to exhibit wing size reduction despite the high species-richness of this subfamily.