Synaldis Foerster, 1863

Dias de Oliveira, Franciélle & Penteado-Dias, Angélica Maria, 2024, First record of subgenus Synaldis Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae, Dinotrema Foerster) from Chile, with description of ten new species, ZooKeys 1206, pp. 275-314 : 275-314

Subgenus Synaldis Foerster, 1863

Type species.

Bassus concolor Nees von Esenbeck, 1812 (monobasic).

Foerster 1863: 273 (original designation as genus); van Achterberg 1988: 21 (as synonym of Dinotrema ); Fischer 1993 a: 452 (as genus); Zhu et al. 2017: 38 (as subgenus).

Diagnosis.

Mandibles tridentate, teeth of differing shape and length, sometimes upper tooth very small. Paraclypeal fovea small, clearly separated from eye. Precoxal sulcus always present. Pterostigma very long and narrow. Fore wing vein 2 - SR always absent, resulting the first and second submarginal cells confluent; break between veins r and 3 - SR absent. Vein cu-a often postfurcal, rarely almost interstitial. Metasoma with tergites not very narrowed apically in lateral view, apical sternites and ovipositor not strongly retracted under long apical tergites.

Hosts.

Diptera larvae of the family Phoridae and possibly Drosophilidae .

Comments.

The subgenus Synaldis Foerster, 1863 from the genus Dinotrema is recorded in the fauna of Chile for the first time.