Grandia Goidanich 1936

Godfray, Charles J. & Achterberg, Cornelis Van, 2024, Annotated Checklist of the European Dacnusini and the Dapsilarthra genus group of the Alysiini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Alysiinae), Zootaxa 5513 (1), pp. 1-73 : 61

Grandia Goidanich 1936

Type species: cyanaraphila Richello

Literature: Goidanich (1936); Nixon 1954 -289; Griffiths I-843; Wharton (1984); Belokobylskij (1996).

Hosts: Only information from G. cynaraphila (below).

Notes: 2 r-m absent which is the main Dacnusini apomorphic character. Nixon (1954) treated as Dacnusini but Griffiths I-843 and Wharton (1994) considered Alysiini with independent loss of vein. Two (Palaearctic) species in genus.

cynaraphila ( Richello, 1929; Dacnusa )

Synonymy: Dacnusa naviculari s (Nees) var. cynaraphila Richello, 1929 .

Literature: Richello (1929); Goidanich (1936); Griffiths II-556.

Hosts: Hypothesis —Parasitoid of Agromyza apfelbecki ( = andalusiaca ) mining Cynara scolymus ( Asteraceae ) (pest of cultivated globe artichoke). Evidence— Richello (1929); Goidanich (1936).