Exetastes Gravenhorst 1829
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Genus Exetastes Gravenhorst, 1829
Exetastes Gravenhorst, 1829: 395. Type species: Ichneumon fornicator Fabricius, 1781. Designated by Westwood (1840).
Leptobatus Gravenhorst, 1829: 432. Type species: Leptobatus ziegleri Gravenhorst, 1829. Designated by Viereck (1914).
Semnophrys Förster, 1869: 158. Type species: Exetastes notatus Holmgren, 1860. Designated by Perkins (1962).
Rhimphalea Förster, 1869: 202. Type species: Rhimphalea brevicorpa Davis, 1897 (= Exetastes bioculatus Cresson, 1872). Included by Davis (1897).
Icyona Cameron, 1903: 340. Type species: Icyona rufipes Cameron, 1903 (= Campoplex longipes Smith, 1878). Monobasic.
Allexetastes Kokujev, 1904: 106. Type species: Exetastes (Allexetastes) komarovi Kokujev, 1904. Designated by Viereck (1914).
Rhynchexetastes Cameron, 1906: 102. Type species: Rhynchexetastes violaceipennis Cameron, 1906. Monobasic.
Tegona Morley, 1913: 251. Type species: Tegona rufipes Morley, 1913 (= Campoplex longipes Smith, 1878). Monobasic.
Pseudexetastes Meyer, 1927: 308. Type species: Pseudexetastes diakonovi Meyer, 1927. Original designation.
Diagnosis. This genus can be distinguished from other genera of Banchini by the following combination of character states: labrum less than 0.7 × as long as height of head, not developed into a long tongue; epicnemial carina present (Fig. 6); upper tooth of mandible about same length as lower tooth; lower part of occipital carina joining hypostomal carina above base of mandible; flagellum usually long and slender; laterotergites of T2 and T3 less than 0.3 × as wide as long; anterior end of vein cu-a of fore wing opposite or distad from posterior end of vein Rs+M; ovipositor sheath 0.14 to 1.8 (usually ca. 0.3) × as long as hind tibia (after Townes, 1970).
Distribution. Worldwide excluding the Australasian and Antarctic regions.
Remarks. This genus is the largest genus of Banchini, containing about 168 species (Riedel, 2015; Sheng et al., 2016; Yu et al., 2016).
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Ichneumonidae
- Genus
- Exetastes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Gravenhorst
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Exetastes Gravenhorst, 1829 sec. Watanabe & Sheng, 2018
References
- Gravenhorst, J. L. C. (1829) Ichneumonologia Europaea. Pars III. Sumtibus auctoris, Vratislaviae, 1097 pp.
- Forster, A. (1869) Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, 25 (1868), 135 - 221.
- Cameron, P. (1903) Descriptions of new genera and species of Hymenoptera from India. Zeitschrift fur Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie, 3, 298 - 304, 337 - 344.
- Kokujev, N. R. (1904) Hymenoptera asiatica nova IV. Revue Russe d'Entomologie, 4 (2 - 3), 106 - 108.
- Cameron, P. (1906) Descriptions of new species of parasitic Hymenoptera chiefly in the collection of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum, 5, 17 - 186.
- Morley, C. (1913) The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, Hymenoptera. Vol. 3. Ichneumonidae. British Museum, London, 531 pp.
- Meyer, N. F. (1927) Zur Kenntnis der Tribus Banchini (Familie Ichneumonidae) und einiger neuer Schlupfwespen aus Russland. Konowia, 6, 291 - 311.
- Townes, H. (1970) The genera of Ichneumonidae. Part 3. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 13, 1 - 307.
- Riedel, M. (2015) Die palaarktischen Arten der Gattung Exetastes Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae) des Biologiezentrums Linz, Austria. Linzer Biologische Beitrage, 47, 1467 - 1500.
- Sheng, M. - L., Sun, S. - P. & Li, T. (2016) Illustrations of Parasitoids in Desert-Shrub Pest Insects from the Northwestern Regions of China. Chinese Forestry Press, Beijing, 267 pp.
- Yu, D. S., van Achterberg, C. & Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad 2016. Ichneumonoidea 2015. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 5 March 2018)