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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) » Doryctinae

Subfamily Doryctinae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Food · Print References · Works Cited

braconid from lumber - Monolexis fuscicornis - female

Subfamily Doryctinae? - Spathius - female

lateral - Callihormius stigmatus - female

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 Doryctinae

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Histeromerus moved to Histeromerinae; Acrophasmus synonymized under Doryctinus; Aptenobracon synonymized under Rhaconotus

Explanation of Names

Doryctinae Förster 1862

Numbers

~160 spp. in 25 genera in our area;(1) >2000 spp. in ~200 genera and 15 tribes worldwide

Subfamily Doryctinae

Tribe Binareini

1. Liobracon (1 sp.)

Tribe Doryctini

Subtribe Dendrosotina

2. Dendrosoter (6 spp.)

Subtribe Doryctina

3. Doryctes (15 spp.)

4. Ontsira (8 spp.)

5. Pedinotus (1 sp.)

6. Rhoptrocentrus (1 sp.)

Tribe Ecphylini

7. Aivalykus (1 sp.)

8. Ecphylus (22 spp.)

Tribe Hecabolini

Subtribe Hecabolina

9. Hecabolus (1 sp.)

10. Leluthia (3 spp.)

11. Monolexis (1 sp.)

Subtribe Pambolideina

12. Pambolidea (2 spp.)

Subtribe Stenocorsina

13. Allorhogas (4 spp.)

14. Callihormius (4 spp.)

15. Curtisella (1 sp.)

16. Doryctinus (9 spp.)

17. Glyptocolastes (2 spp.)

18. Stenocorse (1 sp.)

Tribe Heterospilini

19. Heterospilus (32 spp.)

20. Pioscelus (2 spp.)

Tribe Holcobraconini

Subtribe Odontobraconina

21. Odontobracon (6 spp.)

Tribe Rhaconotini

Subtribe Rhaconotina

23. Rhaconotus (10 spp.)

Tribe Spathiini

Subtribe Ptesimogastrina

24. Ptesimogaster (2 spp.)

Subtribe Spathiini

25. Spathius (24 spp.)

Size

1‒25 mm sans ovipositor(2)

Identification

Row of thickened spines (figures 9, 10) along length of outer or front surface of fore tibia and sometimes also middle tibia (these may be a challenge to find)(Belokobilskij & Zaldivar-Riveron 2014)

Occipital carina present; epicnemial carina present

The subfamily is diagnosed by a row of spines on protibia, a flange on the propleuron above the forecoxa, the presence of an epicnemial carina and occipital carina (Marsh 2002), a double node near the apex of the dorsal valve of the ovipositor (Quicke et al., 1992), and a cyclostome mouth. (Seltmann & Sharkey 2007)

Food

larval hosts: larvae of beetles, sawflies, and some moths(2)

Print References

Belokobylskij S.A., Zaldivar-Riveron A. (2014) The genus Spathius Nees (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae) in Mexico: occurrence of a highly diverse Old World taxon in the Neotropics. Zookeys 427: 59–73. (Full text)

Marsh P.M. (1965) The Nearctic Doryctinae. I. A review of the subfamily with a taxonomic revision of the tribe Hecabolini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 58(5): 668–699.

Works Cited

1.	Family Braconidae, pp. 144-295. In: Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico Marsh, P.M. . 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press.

2.	Manual of the New World Genera of the Family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) Wharton, R.A., P.M. Marsh, M.J. Sharkey (Eds). 1997. International Society of Hymenopterists.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 22 February, 2006 - 2:49pm
Additional contributions by josephfortier, Beatriz Moisset, v belov, PaleoJon, Arturo Santos, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 3 July, 2024 - 7:26pm

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