Antrusa Nixon, 1943

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Antrusa Nixon, 1943

Type species: melanocera Thomson

Literature: Griffiths I-862; Fischer et al. (2004a); Tormos et al. (2009) (key to European species).

Hosts: Hypothesis— Parasitoids of leaf-mining Agromyzidae . Evidence— Rearing records summarized below.

Notes: Griffiths considered the three species of Antrusa known to him ( flavicoxa , melanocera , and vaenia ) to be basal members of the genus Exotela with no apomorphic characters to distinguish them from his hypothesised plesiomorphic Dacnusini ground state. Authors such as Fischer et al. (2004) and Peris-Felipo et al. (2015) followed Nixon in recognising Antrusa and preliminary molecular data ( Antrusa DNA barcode sequences cluster together and away from Exotela ) suggests Antrusa is a natural group. 7 European and c.10 described species globally (Taxapad). The rather aberrant Chorebus interstitialis with a four-toothed mandible has previously been placed in Antrusa .