Macroteleia Westwood 1835
Authors/Creators
- 1. Life Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK
- 2. University " Al. I. Cuza " Iasi, Faculty of Biology, B-dul Carol I, no.
- 3. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Terrestrial Zoology, Postbus 9517, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
- 4. Beukenhof 96, NL- 8212 EB, Lelystad, The Netherlands
- 5. 15 Plawsworth Road, Sacriston, County Durham, DH 7 6 PD, UK
Description
Genus Macroteleia Westwood, 1835
Two species of Macroteleia were recorded from Britain by Notton (2006) and a third species is reported here. Since limited British material is currently available, further variation, particularly in colour, may be encountered. Provisional synonymy between M. minor and M. brevigaster is discussed below. Numerous Palaearctic species of Macroteleia are catalogued by Johnson (1992) and more have been described since (Kozlov & Kononova 1987, 1990; Kononova & Petrov 2003), although a number of old names have not been accounted for by recent authors, so some further synonymy may yet occur. The host relations of the British species are unknown, although other species of Macroteleia are solitary parasitoids of the eggs of bush crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) (Muesebeck 1977).
Key to females of British Macroteleia
1. Gastral tergite 3 with lateral areas not defined; body less elongate (Fig. 10): exposed part of apical tergite 1.4–1.6 times as long as wide; postmarginal vein 1.4–1.6 times as long as marginal (body black; scape red-brown; legs red-brown, all coxae darkened) …………… Macroteleia brevigaster Masner, 1976
- Gastral tergite 3 with lateral area on each side defined by a longitudinal carina; body more elongate (Figs 4, 7): exposed part of apical tergite 2.2–2.6 times as long as wide; postmarginal vein 1.7– 2.3 times as long as marginal ………………………………………………………………………2
2. Gastral tergite 3 transverse, 1.2 times as wide as long; exposed part of apical tergite 2.2 times as long as wide; postmarginal vein 1.7 times as long as marginal (body black; scape dark brown with base orange-brown; legs orange-brown, mid and hind coxae darkened) ……………………………………………………… Macroteleia atrata Kozlov & Kononova, 1987
- Gastral tergite 3 as long as wide; exposed part of apical tergite 2.6 times as long as wide; postmarginal vein 2.3 times as long as marginal (body dark brown to black above, yellow to yellow brown below; scape yellow-brown; legs including coxae yellow) ……………… Macroteleia bicolora Kieffer, 1908
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Westwood
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Scelionidae
- Genus
- Macroteleia
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Macroteleia Westwood, 1835 sec. Notton, Popovici, Achterberg, Rond & Burn, 2014
References
- Notton D. G. 2006. Genus group taxa of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae & Platygastridae) new to Britain. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 142: 189 - 232.
- Johnson N. F. 1992. Catalog of world species of Proctotrupoidea, exclusive of Platygastridae (Hymenoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 51: 1 - 825.
- Kozlov M. A. & Kononova S. V. 1987. [New Palaearctic species of the genus Macroteleia Westwood, 1835 (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae).]. In: Ler P. A. & Storozheva N. A. (eds) Novy e Dannye po Sistematike Nasekomykh Dal'nego Vostoka [New Data on the Systematics of Insects of the Far East]: 93 - 101. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Far East Branch, Biology & Soil Institute, Vladivostok.
- Kozlov M. A. & Kononova S. V. 1990. Stselionidy fauny SSSR (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae, Scelioninae). Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR 161: 1 - 344.
- Kononova S. V. & Petrov S. 2003. New species of egg parasites of the family Scelionidae (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea) in the Palaearctic fauna. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 82: 603 - 612.
- Muesebeck C. F. W. 1977. The parasitic wasps of the genus Macroteleia Westwood of the New World (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea, Scelionidae). United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1565: 1 - 57.
- Kieffer J. J. 1908 Revision des Scelionidae (Hymenopteres). Annales de la Societe Scientifique de Bruxelles 32: 111 - 250.