Echinodoryctes
A small genus with two species known [1].
References
- , “Taxapad 2012, Ichneumonoidea 2011. Database on flash-drive.”. www.taxapad.com, Ottawa, Canada., 2012.
Unknown.
Head subcubical; frons slightly concave or flat, without median keel; ocellar triangle with base almost equal than its sides; eyes with short sparse setae or glabrous, with shallow emargination opposite antennal sockets; occipital carina distinct and complete; postgenal bridge very narrow; palpi formula 6-4; scape long and not flattened laterally, without apical lobe and basal constriction; first flagellar segment straight and not shorter than second segment; mesosoma slightly reduced; neck of promesosoma long, divided by deep submedian constriction on two subequal parts; pronotal keel distinct; anterior mesonotum gently curving posteriorly and only slightly raised above pronotum; mesoscutum with anterolateral corners; notauli deep and complete; scutellum narrow and more or less distinctly convex; sternaulus shallow or very shallow, long, straight, oblique and sculptured; prepectal carina present, wide, situated very high on mesopleuron; propodeum without marginate areas, with 4 long or short and pointed or obtuse lateral spines (2 submedially and 2 posteriorly); propodeal bridge absent; fore tibia with several distinct spines arranged in single row; hind tibia with 2 spines in outer distal margin and with area of dense setae in inner distal part; hind coxa with basoventral tooth and weak corner; hind basitarsus 0.6-0.7 x as long as segments 2-5 combined; wings strongly reduced, present only as scales; first metasomal tergite short and wide, with small dorsope, with short wide basolateral processes and deep short basal cavity; acrosternite short, 0.2 x as long as tegite; second suture indistinct; second and third tergites without furrows or defined areas; ovipositor about as long as metasoma or shorter than it; apex of dorsal valve with 2 small and widely separated nodes, apex of ventral valve serrate [1].
References
- , “Systematics, distribution and diversity of the Australasian doryctine wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae).”, Records of the South Australian Museum Monograph Series, vol. 8, pp. 1-150, 2004.
This genus differs from all other in the tribes Doryctini and Hecabolini by the presence of four distinct spines on the propodeum and having the neck of pronotum divided in two parts by a distinct submedian constriction [1]. Echinodoryctes differs from Doryctopambolus (an other genus with spines on propodeum) by the micropterous wings, the propodeum globose and mostly smooth, the hind coxa with basoventral tubercle/tooth and all the femora with dorsal protuberances/blisters [2].
References
- , “Phylogeny of the genera of the parasitic wasps subfamily Doryctinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) based on morphological evidence.”, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 142, no. 3, pp. 369-404, 2004.
- , “Doryctopambolus Nunes & Zaldívar-Riverón (Braconidae), a new neotropical doryctine wasp genus with propodeal spines”, ZooKeys, vol. 223, pp. 53-67, 2012.
Australasian.