Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae

Genus Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879 Figs 35, 36

Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879: 27.

Note.

The taxonomic rank and delineation of Philoctetes has differed among several authors. We follow the definition given by Kimsey and Bohart (1991) and consider it as a distinct genus. Philoctetes is characterised by the following diagnostic features: mesoscutum with large punctures concentrated along notauli; central malar space without carina; mesopleuron rounded and weakly projecting ventrally; metascutellum usually conical; posterior margin of T3 usually deeply notched medially. The hosts consist of crabronid wasps of the subfamily Pemphredoninae . Approximately 40 species are recognised worldwide, and about 30 of these are Palearctic (Kimsey and Bohart 1991). A total of 22 species are known from Europe (Rosa and Soon 2012), but only Philoctetes truncatus is found in the Nordic and Baltic countries (Paukkunen et al. 2014).