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Brachygaster Leach 1815

Authors/Creators

  • 1. College of Agricultural and Biotechnology, Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology, Loudi 417000, China.
  • 2. College of Agricultural and Biotechnology, Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology, Loudi 417000, China. & Loudi Institute of Agricultural Science, Loudi 417000, China.
  • 3. Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.

Description

4.1 Genus Brachygaster Leach, 1815

Brachygaster: Leach, 1815: 142 [listed as genus for minutus]; Westwood, 1840: 134 [fig. 74.7 fore wing]; Westwood, 1843: 240 [note on taxonomy]; Dalla Torre, 1902: 1076 [in catalog as syn. of Evania]; Kieffer, 1902: 2 [in key], 5 [diag., spp. checklist]; Szépligeti, 1903: 375 [in key]; Enderlein, 1905: 700 [in key], 701 [spp. checklist]; Kieffer, 1911: 151 [in key], 153 [spp. key]; Kieffer, 1912: 10 [in key], 32 [descr., in part], 32–34 [spp. key, in part]; Hedicke, 1939: 34 [in catalog]; Crosskey, 1951: 249 [note on classification], 260 [mesosoma morphology], 266 [propodeum morphology], 270–271 [wing morphology], 274 [wing and metasoma morphology], 275 [fig. 31 metasoma], 276– 279 [♂ genitalia], 279 [figs. 38– 39 ♂ genitalia]; Pagliano, 1986: 16 [in key, diag.]; Huben, 1995: 196 [oviposit into oothecae of Ectobius], 197 [table 8.1, host=“ Ectobius spp. ”]; Nel et al., 2002: 267 [compared to Eoevania]; Deans & Huben, 2003: 860 [note about old generic concept], 861 [in table 1], 865 [in key, diag.], 865 [compared to Semaeomyia], 868 [fig. 15 fore wing]. Type species: Evania minuta Olivier.

Semaedogaster: Bradley, 1905: 63 [proposed replacement name to remove homonymy with the dipteran Brachygaster Meigen, 1826 {in error; see Enderlein 1909}]; Bradley, 1908: 133 [wing morphology], 163 [in key], 185 [note on homonymy with other Brachygaster]; Enderlein, 1909: 256 [syn. of Brachygaster]; Hedicke, 1939: 34 [in catalog as syn. of Brachygaster].

Coranila: Westwood, 1843: 240 [Leach’s manuscript name listed, nom. nud.]; Hedicke 1939: 34 [in catalog as syn. of Brachygaster].

Number of valid species from China: 1.

(1) Brachygaster conjungens Enderlein, 1909

Brachygaster conjungens: Enderlein, 1909: 256–257 [note on generic assignment], 257– 258 [descr. ♀, “Süd-Formosa. Takao. 29. März. 1907. Gesammelt von H. Sauter”, ZMIZ, 9 syntypes, including at least 1♀ and 1♂]; Kieffer, 1912: 32 [in key], 36–37 [redescr.]; Enderlein, 1913: 318 [collected in Taiwan]; Hedicke, 1939: 34 [in catalog]; Deans, 2005: 19 [in catalog].

Distribution: China (Taiwan) (Enderlein 1909; Deans 2005).

Biology. Host unknown.

Notes

Published as part of Li, Yicheng, He, Yanbiao & Chen, Huayan, 2024, An annotated catalog of Evanioidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from China, pp. 75-111 in Zootaxa 5468 (1) on pages 86-87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5468.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/11614335

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Leach
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Evaniidae
Genus
Brachygaster
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Brachygaster Leach, 1815 sec. Li, He & Chen, 2024

References

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  • Westwood, J. O. (1840) n. k. In: An introduction to the modern classification of insects. Vol. 2. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, pp. iii - xi + 1 - 587.
  • Westwood, J. O. (1843) On Evania and some allied genera of hymenopterous insects. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 34, 237 - 278.
  • Dalla Torre, C. G. de [= K. W. von] (1902) 2. Subfam. Gasteruptionidae. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, 3, 1063 - 1075.
  • Kieffer, J. J. (1902) Hymenoptera fam. Evaniidae. In: Wytsman, P. (Ed.), Genera Insectorum. Vol. 2. L. Desmet-Verteneuil, Brussels, pp. 1 - 13, 1 pl. [in French]
  • Szepligeti, V. (1903) Neue Evaniiden aus der Sammlung des Ungarischen National-Museums. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 1 (1), 364 - 395.
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  • Kieffer, J. J. (1911) Etude sur les evaniides exotiques Hym. du British Museum de Londres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 80, 151 - 231. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 2983
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