Genus Doryctes Haliday, 1836

Type species

Bracon obliteratus Nees, 1834, designated by Erichson (1837).

Remarks

Doryctes currently consists of three subgenera, Doryctes s. str., Neodoryctes Szépligeti, 1914 and Plyctes Fischer, 1981 . The last two subgenera are sometimes treated as valid genera (Zaldívar-Riverón et al. 2008). The subgenus Neodoryctes is here recorded from the Arabian Peninsula for the first time.

Distribution

All zoogeographical regions.