Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Braconidae
Author
Broad, Gavin R.
Author
Shaw, Mark R.
Author
Godfray, H. Charles J.
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2016
4
8151
8151
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e8151
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e8151
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Bassus Fabricius, 1804
MICRODUS
Nees, 1814
DIPLOZON
Haliday, 1833
EURYZONA
Haliday, 1838 nom. nud.
EUMICRODUS
Foerster
, 1863
HEMIOGASTER
Enderlein, 1920 synonymy by
Achterberg and Long (2010)
Notes
Following molecular phylogenetic analysis of
Agathidinae
(
Sharkey et al. 2006
), the genus
Bassus
s.l. was recognised as being a polyphyletic assemblage. Species are now being described in or reassigned to
Lytopylus
,
Thermophilus
and the non-British
Camptothlipsis
(
Sharkey et al. 2009
,
Stevens et al. 2010
,
Stevens et al. 2011
,
Achterberg and Long 2010
,
Achterberg 2011
) but very few European species have been formally transferred. The species on the British list have therefore been reassigned here on the bases of recent generic keys (e.g.
Sharkey et al. 2009
) in anticipation of future taxonomy. Whereas
Bassus
s. s. is now restricted to a small group of species (only one in Britain),
Therophilus
remains large and probably para- or polyphyletic. Distribution and synonymic data for
Bassus
,
Lytopylus
and
Therophilus
from
Nixon (1986)
and
Simbolotti and Achterberg (1992)
.