Philocentrus Steffan, 1959

Abul-Sood, Medhat I., Gadallah, Neveen S., Hossni, Mohammed T. & Delvare, Gérard, 2018, The subfamily Cratocentrinae (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae): reappraisal of their morphological characters and review of the West Palaearctic species, with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 4377 (4), pp. 490-516 : 505-507

Philocentrus Steffan

Philocentus Steffan 1959: 321–322. Original description. Type species Philocentrus argenteolus Steffan by original designation.

Diagnosis and recognition. The main characters for the diagnosis of the genus are stated in the key.

Distribution. One species occurs in Arabian Peninsula and Sinai (see below) and the other examined species are distributed in the Afrotropical Region.

Diversity. The genus includes at least 6 species. Until now only the type species was recognized, but one species initially described by Cameron (1907) in Cratocentrus actually belongs to the genus (see below). Hosts. Only the host of P. papillus sp. nov., described below, is known. As for the other Cratocentrinae it is a xylophagous beetle.