Entedonomphale Girault, 1915

Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2005, Revision of Ceranisus and the related thrips-attacking entedonine genera (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) of the world, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 261-315 : 269-270

Genus Entedonomphale Girault, 1915 , stat. rev.

Entedonomphale Girault, 1915: 216 . Type-species: Entedonomphale margiscutum Girault, 1915 , by original designation. Stat. rev. (Synonymised under Ceranisus by Boucek 1988: 733).

Cryptomphale Girault, 1917 a: 2 . Type species: Thripoctenus nubilipennis Williams, 1916 , by original designation. Syn. n. (Synonymised under Ceranisus by Peck 1963: 117).

Entedonastichus Girault, 1920 b: 143 . Type species: Entedonastichus mirus Girault, 1920 , by monotypy. Syn. n.

Pirenoidea Girault, 1922: 107 . Type species: Pirenoidea dei Girault, 1922 , by monotypy. Syn. n. (Synonymised under Entedonastichus by Boucek 1988: 733).

Thripoctenoides Erdös, 1954: 345 . Type species: Thripoctenoides carbonarius Erdös, 1954 , by original designation. Syn. n. (Synonymised under Entedonastichus by Boucek 1988: 733).

Thripoctenoides Erdös : Yoshimoto 1981: 723.

Entedonastichus Girault : Boucek 1988: 732, 733; Schauff 1991: 52; Loomans & van Lenteren 1995: 146– 149, 197.

Diagnosis: Body usually brown to dark brown or black; occipital suture usually evident (can be straight or angulate) but sometimes inconspicuous; malar sulcus split ventrally (Y-shaped) in most species, rarely straight; mandible reduced (without teeth); antennal scape (both sexes) often notably expanded in basal half and narrowing distally; female flagellum with 2 funicle segments and a solid clava without an apical spicula; male flagellum either with a 2-segmented funicle and a 3-segmented (or rarely solid) clava or with a 3-segmented funicle and a solid clava, clava of male antenna with or without an apical spicula; notauli indistinct; midlobe of mesoscutum with 1 or 2 pairs of setae; anterior margin of scutellum usually angulate (projecting forward into mesoscutum) but sometimes sinuate or almost straight; forewing broadened beyond submarginal vein, stigmal vein often (but not always) relatively far away from wing’s apex; petiole at least as long as wide, often notably longer than wide.

Biology: Larval parasitoids of various Phlaeothripidae (Tubulifera) .

Comments: Some other morphological features, such as presence or absence of sculpture on head and mesosoma, relative length of marginal setae to width of the forewing, position of the toruli, etc., have proven to be so variable among the species of Entedonomphale that they cannot be considered of diagnostic value at the generic level.

Entedonomphale is the earliest generic name published by Girault (1915) for this characteristic genus. For justification of its removal from the previous synonymy under Ceranisus , see comments (below) on its type species, E. margiscutum . The type species of the genera Cryptomphale , Entedonastichus , Pirenoidea , and Thripoctenoides all belong in Endedonomphale, hence the generic synonymies proposed herein.