A revision of the European species of Baeoneurella Dodd (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)

ABSTRACT

The genus Baeoneurella Dodd, is resurrected, and Eumicrosoma Gahan, is treated as a junior synonym. A comparison between Baeoneurella and Telenomus Haliday, with emphasis on the T. floridanus group, is made to evaluate the generic limits of Baeoneurella, and synapomorphies for this genus are presented. The European species of Baeoneurella, including a new species, B. maceki Popovici, Masner and Polaszek, are described and illustrated, with new data concerning their distribution and habitats. Keys to the European species of this genus for females and for males are provided.

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KEYWORDS:

• Platygastroidea
• taxonomy
• parasitoid
• ooparasitoid
• Blissidae

Acknowledgements

Sincere thanks to Dr John Noyes, Dr Oleksandr Varha, Dr Michael von Tschirnhaus, Mr Pierre Tripotin and Mr Gordon Ramel, and to Mr Elias de Bree (Eurofins-Mitox) for providing material for this study, to Dr Lucian Fusu for valuable comments on the manuscript, to Dr Andrei Lobiuc for SEM pictures, to Dr Andrey Khalaim and Dr Chris Burwell for their valuable help with the pictures of types of Eumicrosoma mirabilis Kozlov and Kononova and Baeoneurella bella Dodd, to Dr Luciana Musetti and Prof. Norman Johnson for access to The genera of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) of the World and Hymenoptera on-line database – the most valuable resources for any Platygastroidea student – and to the wife and son of the first author, Mariana and Vlad-Lubomir Popovici, for moral support. The first author was supported in part by the SYNTHESYS projects (FR-TAF-6379 and HU-TAF-6368) and by PN-III-P4-ID-PCE- 2016-0233.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Sixth Framework Programme [FR-TAF-6379 HU-TAF-6368].