Lytopylus Foester , 1862

Kang, Ilgoo, Chapman, Eric G., Janzen, Daniel H., Hallwachs, Winnie, Tanya Dapkey,, Alex, Smith M. & Sharkey, Michael J., 2017, Revision of the species of Lytopylus from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae), ZooKeys 721, pp. 93-158 : 97

Lytopylus Foester, 1862

Agathellina Enderlein, 1920. Type species: Agathellina columbiana Enderlein, 1920.

Ditropia Enderlein, 1920. Type species: Ditropia strigata Enderlein, 1920.

Austroearinus Sharkey, 2006. Type species: Bassus rufofemoratus Muesebeck, 1927.

Type species.

Lytopylus azygos Viereck, 1905, by monotypy, first included species.

Diagnosis.

Lytopylus can be distinguished from all other agathidine genera with the following combination of characters: tarsal claws simple with a basal lobe; mesoscutum unsculptured and notauli absent; fore wing vein (RS+Ma) not complete; vein CUb of hind wing weak or absent and never tubular; hind coxal cavities open; median tergite 3 smooth.

Distribution.

Restricted to the New World, from the northeastern USA south to Argentina, primarily Neotropical.

Species diversity.

Including the thirty-two species described here, there are 39 described species of Lytopylus . Based on the diversity in the University of Kentucky Hymenoptera Institute Collection, there are hundreds more awaiting description.

Key to the species of Lytopylus of Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica