Asobara 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

Asobara Foerster, 1863

Asobara Foerster, 1863: 267; Shenefelt 1974: 964; Wharton 1980: 31; Chen and Wu 1994: 39; Belokobylskij 1998: 268; Wharton 2002: 28. Type species: Alysia tabida Nees von Esenbeck, 1834.

Synonym.

Spanista Foerster, 1863.

Biology.

Rather large genus, contains parasitoids of Drosophilidae and Sepsidae in decaying organic matter, especially fruits and leaves. The group with widened ovipositor sheath contains parasitoids of Tephritidae in fruits.

Species.

Asobara aurea (Papp, 1967) ( Papp 1967; Chou 1981; Chen and Wu 1994)

Asobara bactrocerae (Gahan, 1925) ( Chen and Wu 1994)

Asobara elongata van Achterberg & Guerrieri, 2016 ( Guerrieri et al. 2016)

Asobara formosae (Ashmead, 1906) ( Fischer 1973a; Chou 1981; Ashmead 1906)

Asobara fungicola (Ashmead, 1894) ( Chen and Wu 1994)

Asobara leveri (Nixon, 1939) ( Chen and Wu 1994)

Asobara mesocauda van Achterberg & Guerrieri, 2016 ( Guerrieri et al. 2016)

Asobara obliqua (Papp, 1969) ( Chen and Wu 1994)

Asobara pleuralis (Ashmead, 1905) ( Papp 1967; Guerrieri et al. 2016)

Asobara triangulata van Achterberg & Guerrieri, 2016 ( Guerrieri et al. 2016)

Asobara tabida (Nees, 1834) ( Chen and Wu 1994)

Asobara tabidula (Tobias, 1962) ( Chen and Wu 1994)

Asobara unicolorata van Achterberg & Guerrieri, 2016 ( Guerrieri et al. 2016)