Phaenocarpa Foerster, 1863

Sohn, Ju-Hyeong, van Achterberg, Cornelis, Lee, Gyeonghyeon & Kim, Hyojoong, 2021, Three new species and two new records of the genus Phaenocarpa Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae) from South Korea, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 86, pp. 1-17 : 1

Phaenocarpa Foerster, 1863

Phaenocarpa Foerster, 1863: 267; Papp 1968: 570; Fischer 1970: 409; Shenefelt 1974: 1003; Wharton 1980: 96; Chen and Wu 1994: 114; Belokobylskij 1998: 233. Type species: Alysia picinervis Haliday, 1838.

Synonymy.

Homophyla Foerster, 1863 (subgenus); Mesothesis Foerster, 1863; Sathra Foerster, 1863; Idiolexis Foerster, 1863 (subgenus); Asynaphes Provancher, 1886; Kahlia Ashmead, 1900 (subgenus); Stiralysia Cameron, 1910; Rhopaloneura Stelfox, 1941; Discphaenocarpa Belokobylskij, 1998 (subgenus); Neophaenocarpa Belokobylskij, 1998 (subgenus); Sibphaenocarpa Belokobylskij, 1998 (subgenus); Uncphaenocarpa Belokobylskij, 1998 (subgenus); Ussurphaenocarpa Belokobylskij, 1998 (subgenus); Clistalysia Zhu, van Achterberg & Chen, 2017 (subgenus).

Diagnosis.

Third antennal segment shorter than fourth segment; fore wing vein 2-SR shorter than vein 3-SR, vein CU1b longer than vein 3-CU1.

Biology.

Koinobiont endoparasitoids of larvae of Dipteran species ( Wharton 1984).

Distribution.

Cosmopolitan.