Aspilota Foerster, 1863

Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, Santa, Fernando, van Achterberg, Cornelis & Belokobylskij, Sergey A., 2025, Review of the genera and subgenera of the subtribe Aspilotina (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae), with a new illustrated key, ZooKeys 1229, pp. 133-200 : 133-200

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scientific name	Aspilota Foerster, 1863
status	sensu stricto

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Subgenus Aspilota Foerster, 1863 , sensu stricto

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Aspilota Foerster, 1863: 268; Shenefelt 1974: 966; Wharton 1980: 84; van Achterberg 1988: 9; Chen and Wu 1994: 49; Belokobylskij 1998 a: 218; Wharton 2002: 34; Yu et al. 2016. View in CoL

Dipiesta Foerster, 1863: 265.

Type species.

Alysia ruficornis Nees von Esenbeck, 1834 , by monotypy.

Material examined.

Numerous species from the Palaearctic, Nearctic, and Neotropical regions were reviewed (e. g., Peris-Felipo and Belokobylskj 2014; Peris-Felipo et al. 2016 a, 2016 b, 2016 c, 2016 d).

Remarks.

This largest and easily recognised subgenus includes most of Aspilota species. Pterusa ruficollis (Stelfox & Graham, 1950) is returned to Aspilota as A. ruficollis Stelfox & Graham, 1950 , comb. nov. after the revision of type because the paraclypeal fovea are wide and reaching the inner margin of the eyes. Its new generic position is also supported by Fischer’s re-description of the species ( Fischer 1972: 436).

References

Belokobylskij SA (1998 a) 9. Alysiinae (Alysiini). In: Lehr PA (Ed.) Key to insects of the Russian Far East. Vol. 4. Neuropteroidea, Mecoptera, Hymenoptera. Pt 3. Dal’nauka, Vladivostok, 162–298. [In Russian]

Peris-Felipo FJ, Belokobylskij SA, Vilhelmsen L, Munk T (2016 a) Catalogue of Danish Alysiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), with the description of two new species of Aspilota Foerster, 1863. European Journal of Taxonomy 250: 1–48. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.250

Peris-Felipo FJ, García-Bacerra R, Belokobylskij S (2016 b) Aspilota ajara sp. n. (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae), the first species of the genus Aspilota Foerster from caves. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 52: 153–162. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.52.10067

Peris-Felipo FJ, Ameri A, Rakhshani E, Belokobylskij SA (2016 c) The genus Aspilota Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) in western Asia. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 2 (2): 259–283.

Peris-Felipo FJ, Yari Z, Rakhshani E, Belokobylskij SA (2016 d) Aspilota isfahanensis, a new species of the genus Aspilota Foerster, 1863 from Iran (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae). ZooKeys 582: 121–127. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.582.7426

Chen JH, Wu ZS (1994) The Alysiini of China (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae). China Agricultural Press, Fuzhou, 218 pp. [In Chinese, with English summary]

Fischer M (1972) Erste Gliederung der paläarktischen Aspilota - Arten (Hym., Braconidae, Alysiinae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 42: 323–459.

Foerster A (1863) Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Braconiden. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 19: 225-288.

Shenefelt RD (1974) Pars II. Braconidae 7. Alysiinae. In van der Vecht, J. and Shenefelt R. D., Hymenopterorum Catalogus (nova editio). Dr. W. Junk, The Hague, 937–1113.

van Achterberg C (1988) The genera of the Aspilota - group and some descriptions of fungicolous Alysiini from the Netherlands (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae). Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden 247: 1–88.

Wharton RA (1980) Review of New World Alysiini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with discussion of generic relationships within the tribe. University of California Publications in Entomology 88: 1–104.

Wharton RA (2002) Revision of the Australian Alysiini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Invertebrate Systematics 16: 7–105. https://doi.org/10.1071/IT01012

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