Aphaereta Foerster, 1863

Zhu, Jia-Chen, Achterberg, Cornelis van & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2017, An illustrated key to the genera and subgenera of the Alysiini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae), with three genera new for China, ZooKeys 722, pp. 37-79 : 57

Aphaereta Foerster, 1863

Aphaereta Foerster, 1863: 264: Shenefelt 1974: 956; Wharton 1980: 74; Chen and Wu 1994: 37; Belokobylskij 1998: 273; van Achterberg 2012: 2. Type species: Alysia cephalotes Haliday, 1833.

Biology.

Rather small genus containing parasitoids of Agromyzidae , Anthomyiidae , Aulacigastridae , Calliphoridae , Chloropidae , Coelopidae , Fannidae , Muscidae , Ottidae , Sarcophagidae , Sciomyzidae , Tachinidae and Tephritidae .

Species.

Aphaereta major (Thomson, 1895) ( Chen and Wu 1994)

Aphaereta rubicunda Tobias, 1962 ( Chen and Wu 1994)

Aphaereta scaptomyzae Fischer, 1966a (He and Chen 2004)

Aphaereta tricolor Papp, 1994 (He and Chen 2004)