Brachymeria Westwood, 1829

Narendran, T. C. & van Achterberg, Cornelis, 2016, Revision of the family Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from Vietnam, with the description of 13 new species, ZooKeys 576, pp. 1-202 : 19-23

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chalcididae

Brachymeria Westwood, 1829 Figs 25, 26, 27-28, 29-30, 31-32, 33-35, 36-37, 38-39, 40-41, 42-43, 44-45, 46-47, 48-50, 51, 52-53, 54-55, 56, 57-58, 59, 60-61, 62, 63-64, 65, 66-67, 68-70

Brachymeria Westwood (in Stephens), 1829: 36. Type species: Chalcis minuta Fabricius; designated by Westwood, 1839.

Thaumatelia Kirby, 1883: 60. Type species: Chalcis separata Walker, by monotypy (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Halstead 1991).

Oncochalcis Cameron, 1904: 162. Type species: Oncochalcis marginata Cameron, by monotypy; (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Nikol’skaya 1960).

Holochalcis Kieffer, 1905: 258. Type species: Holochalcis madagascariensis Kieffer, by subsequent designation of Gahan and Fagan (1923); (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Narendran (in Subba Rao & Hayat), 1987b).

Tumidicoxa Girault, 1911: 378. Type species: Tumidicoxa nigra Girault; by original designation; (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Girault (1913)).

Thaumatelia Kirby, 1883: 60. Type species Chalcis separata Walker, by monotypy; (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Halstead 1991).

Thaumateliana Girault, 1912: 160-161. Type species: Thaumateliana bicolor Girault, by monotypy; (synonymised with Thaumatelia Kirby by Narendran and Verghese 1989).

Pseudepitelia Girault, 1913: 104. Type species: Pseudepitelia rubrifemur Girault, by original designation; (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Girault 1915a).

Brachepitelia Girault, 1913a: 106. Type species: Brachepitelia rubripes Girault, by original designation and monotypy; (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Girault (1915a)).

Tumidicoxoides Girault, 1913b: 86. Type species: Tumidicoxoides kurandaensis Girault, by original designation; (synonymy with Brachymeria Westwood by Girault (1926)).

Tumidicoxella Girault, 1913c: 74. As a subgenus of Tumidicoxa ; type species: Tumidicoxa (Tumidicoxella) nigra Girault by original designation.

Microchalcis Girault, 1915a: 328. Type species: Microchalcis atricorpus Girault by original designation; (synonymised by Bouček, 1988).

Dirrhinomorpha Girault & Dodd (in Girault 1915a): 327. Type species: Dirrhinomorpha angusta Girault & Dodd, by original designation; (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood and treated as subgenus of Brachymeria by Bouček 1988).

Meyeriella Krausse, 1917: 95. Type species: Meyeriella indica Krausse, by monotypy (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Narendran, 1986).

Neobrachymeria Masi, 1929c: 196-198. As a subgenus of Brachymeria . Type species: Brachymeria confalonierii Masi by original designation.

Australochalcis Girault, 1939: 326. Type species: Australochalcis humilicrus Girault, by original designation and monotypy (listed as synonym of Brachymeria Westwood by Bouček, 1988).

Matsumurameria Habu, 1960: 209. As a subgenus of Brachymeria . Type species: Chalcis taiwanus Matsumura, by original designation.

Gahanula Burks, 1960: 261. Type species: Brachymeria discreta Gahan, by original designation (as a subgenus of Brachymeria ).

Diagnosis.

Head oval in profile; scrobe deep with carinate margins; in some species head with pre-orbital or post-orbital carinae or with both carinae present; malar sulcus carinate or ridged; antennal formula 11171 (clava 1 to 3 segmented). Mesosoma with umbilicate punctures; fore wing with PMV usually half or about half as long as MV and usually twice as long as STV. Hind coxa in ♀ in some cases with an inner ventro-mesal tooth; hind femur with a ventral row of irregular teeth and in some species with an inner basal tooth; hind tibia arcuate; metasoma sessile, T1 always the longest; ovipositor sheath slightly compressed and slightly exserted; in some species metasoma elongate.

Hosts.

The species are mostly primary parasitoids in pupae of holometabolous insects, especially of Lepidoptera , but some species attack Diptera , Coleoptera or Hymenoptera . Most species are primary parasitoids, but some are hyperparasitoids attacking parasitoid Hymenoptera or Diptera in Lepidoptera .

Distribution.

Worldwide.

Key to Vietnamese species of Brachymeria Westwood