Microterys Thomson, 1876

Japoshvili, George, Higashiura, Yoshimitsu & Kamitani, Satoshi, 2016, A review of Japanese Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera), with descriptions of new species, new records and comments on the types described by Japanese authors, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1), pp. 345-401 : 379

Genus Microterys Thomson, 1876

Aschitus Mercet, 1921: 599 , syn. nov.

Comments. After a long term study of many species of Microterys and Aschitus we cannot find any significant and consistent characters for distinguishing these two genera. Therefore, as has already been suggested by NOYES (2010) and JAPOSHVILI (2010), we believe that the two genera should be treated as one. As a result of this synonymy, the following species previously included in Aschitus (see JENSEN 1989) must be transferred to Microterys :

Microterys algiricus (Ferrière, 1956) comb. nov. (originally from Paraphaenodiscus ),

Microterys annulatus (Erdős, 1957) comb. nov. (from Aschitus ),

Microterys balcanicus (Jensen, 1989) comb. nov. (from Aschitus ),

Microterys bicolor ( Mercet, 1921) comb. nov. (from Paraphaenodiscus ),

Microterys carpathicus (Hoffer, 1958) comb. nov. (from Paraphaenodiscus ),

Microterys golcukus (Japoshvili, 2012) comb. nov. (from Aschitus ),

Microterys imeretinus (Japoshvili, 2007) comb. nov. (from Aschitus ),

Microterys jalysus (Walker, 1837) comb. nov. (from Paraphaenodiscus ),

Microterys lichtensiae (Howard, 1896) comb. nov. (from Encyrtus ),

Microterys madyes (Walker, 1837) comb. nov. (from Paraphaenodiscus ),

Microterys margaritae (Myartseva, 1979) comb. nov. (from Aschitus ),

Microterys mongolicus (Myartseva, 1982) comb. nov. (from Paraphaenodiscus ),

Microterys naiacocci (Trjapitzin, 1968) comb. nov. (from Paraphaenodiscus ),

Microterys neoacanthococci (Myartseva, 1979) comb. nov. (from Aschitus ),

Microterys novikovi (Trjapitzin, 1994) comb. nov. (from Aschitus ),

Microterys populi (Myartseva, 1979) comb. nov. (from Aschitus ),

Microterys scapus (Xu, 2004) comb. nov. (from Aschitus ),

Microterys scapus (Xu, 2004) comb. nov. (from Aschitus ),

Microterys submetallicus ( Szelényi, 1972) comb. nov. (from Anicetellus ),

Microterys subterraneus (Ferrière, 1956) comb. nov. (from Paraphaenodiscus ),

Microterys triozae (André, 1877) comb. nov. (from Encytrus),

Microterys zakeri (Bhuiya, 1998) comb. nov. (from Aschitus ).