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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Agathidinae » Agathidini » Alabagrus

Genus Alabagrus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited

small black and red wasp - Alabagrus texanus - female

alabragus texanus? - Alabagrus texanus - female

Alabagrus texanus? - Alabagrus texanus - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)

Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps)

Family Braconidae (Braconid Wasps)

Subfamily Agathidinae

Tribe Agathidini

Genus Alabagrus

Explanation of Names

Alabagrus Enderlein, 1920

Numbers

6 spp. in our area; (1)(2) 104 spp. worldwide as of Sharkey (1988)(1)(3)

1. Alabagrus imitatus: southeastern US; TX

2. Alabagrus marginatifrons: southeastern US; KS

3. Alabagrus sanctus: northeastern US; LA, OK, TX

4. Alabagrus stigma: s. FL

5. Alabagrus texanus: widespread eastern US to TX

6. Alabagrus xolotl: AZ

Identification

Distinguished from other Agathidinae as follows: fore claw with rounded basal node and not cleft, forewing with vein (RS+M)a mostly absent, notauli present, frons with carina.(1)

Key to females after Muesebeck (1927) with additions from Sharkey (1988):(4)(3)

1a. Wings infuscate with the pterostigma distinctly yellow .............................................. A. stigma

1b. Wings infuscate without contrasting color on pterostigma ......................................... 2

2a. Thorax primarily testaceous or ferruginous ............................................................. 3

2b. Thorax primarily black, metapleuron and propodeum variable ................................... 5

3a. Fore and middle legs mostly black ......................................................................... A. imitatus

3b. Fore and middle legs entirely testaceous ................................................................ 4

4a. Eastern species; hind trochanter distally brown; hind tarsus and tibia distally brown .... A. marginatifrons

4b. Desert southwest species; all trochanters black; hind tarsus and tibia apically brown ... A. xolotl

5a. Ovipositor slightly longer than the abdomen; only hind coxae and femora orange ......... A. texanus

5b. Ovipositor about as long as the body; hind coxae, femora, and base of tibiae orange .... A. sanctus

Range

New World, primarily Neotropical(1)

Works Cited

1.	Synopsis of the Agathidinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of America north of Mexico Michael J. Sharkey. 2004. Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society. St. Petersburg, 75(1): 134-152.

2.	Nomina Insecta Nearctica Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.

3.	A taxonomic revision of Alabagrus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) Michael J. Sharkey. 1988. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 57: 1-137.

4.	A revision of the parasitic wasps of the subfamily Braconinae occurring in America north of Mexico C.F.W. Muesebeck. 1927. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 69 (2642):1-73.

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 20 September, 2007 - 1:38pm
Additional contributions by PaleoJon
Last updated 2 December, 2022 - 9:22pm

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