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Polydegmon Foerster 1862

Description

Polydegmon Foerster, 1862

Polydegmon Foerster, 1862: 242; Shenefelt, 1970: 273; van Achterberg, 1990: 13 –17; Papp, 1997: 111; Belokobylskij, 1998: 440 –442, 467. Type species: Polydegmon sinuatus Foerster, 1862.

Diagnosis. Length of body 3.0–4.0mm; antennal segments 24–34; precoxal sulcus absent, except for a shallow depression; vein CU1b of fore wing present; hind trochanter and fore coxa without ventral carina; ventral carina of hind femur present in basal 0.6–0.7; tarsal claws with small acute lobe; hind coxa with dorsal tooth and at most finely punctate, its dorsal carina short or obsolescent; first epipleuron of metasoma distinctly sculptured, at least as strong as sculpture of second epipleuron; only three basal metasomal segments exposed; ventro-posterior rim of third metasomal tergite crenulate and differentiated from its epipleuron; length of ovipositor sheath 0.97–1.33 times fore wing.

Notes

Published as part of Yan, Cheng-Jin, He, Jun-Hua & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2013, Two genera Foersteria Szépligeti, 1896 and Polydegmon Foerster, 1862 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Brachistinae) from China, with description of a new species, pp. 178-184 in Zootaxa 3683 (2) on page 181, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3683.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/223255

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Biodiversity

Family
Braconidae
Genus
Polydegmon
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Foerster
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Polydegmon Foerster, 1862 sec. Yan, He & Chen, 2013

References

  • Shenefelt, R. D. (1970) Hymenopterorum Catalogus. Pars 5. Braconidae 2. Helconinae, Calyptinae, Mimagathidinae, Triaspinae. s-Gravenhage, Dr W. Junk, pp. 177 - 306.
  • van Achterberg, C. (1990) Revision of the genera Foersteria Szepligeti and Polydegmon Foerster (Hyemnoptera: Braconidae) with the description of a new genus. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 257, 1 - 32.
  • Papp, J. (1997) Contribution to the braconid fauna of Hungary, XII. Calyptinae - 1. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Folia Entomologica Hungarica, 58, 105 - 113.
  • Belokobylskij, S. A. (1998) Subfam. Helconinae, In: Lehr, P. A. (Ed.), Opredelitel' na seko mykh Dal'nego Vostoka Rossii. Tom 4. Setchato krylo obraznye, skorpionnitzy, pereponchatokrylye. Chast' 3. Dal'nauka, Vladivostok, pp. 441 - 468. [in Russian]