Macroteleia Westwood

Chen, Hua-yan, Johnson, Norman F., Masner, Lubomir & Xu, Zai-fu, 2013, The genus Macroteleia Westwood (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s. l., Scelioninae) from China, ZooKeys 300, pp. 1-98 : 3-6

Macroteleia Westwood

Macroteleia Westwood 1835: 70. Original description. Type: Macroteleia cleonymoides Westwood, by monotypy. Brullé 1846: 621 (description); Ashmead 1893: 209, 210, 211, 216 (description, keyed, key to species of U.S. and Canada); Ashmead 1894: 216, 222 (key to species of St. Vincent, keyed); Dalla Torre 1898: 501 (catalog of species); Ashmead 1900: 327 (list of species of West Indies); Ashmead 1903: 91, 92, 93, 94 (keyed); Brues 1907: 154 (key to species of United States); Brues 1908: 27, 28, 34, 51 (diagnosis, list of species, keyed); Kieffer 1908a: 22 (key to new species described); Kieffer 1908b: 122, 170 (key to species, keyed); Kieffer 1910a: 316 (key to species of Brazil); Kieffer 1910b: 66, 89 (description, list of species, keyed); Kieffer 1912: 59 (key to species of Seychelles); Dodd 1913a: 131, 151 (key to species of Australia, keyed); Dodd 1913b: 176 (comparison with Ceratoteleia Kieffer); Kieffer 1913a: 232 (description); Kieffer 1913b: 323 (key to species of the Philippines); Kieffer 1914a: 312 (description, key to species of Europe and Algeria); Kieffer 1914b: 298 (key to species of the Philippines); Dodd 1915: 12 (key to species of Australia); Kieffer 1917: 55 (key to species of the Philippines); Kieffer 1926: 273, 520 (description, keyed, key to species); Nixon 1931: 367 (keyed, key to species of Africa); Dodd 1933: 75 (comparison with Prosapegus Kieffer key to species of Australia); Nixon 1933: 292 (keyed); Maneval 1940: 114 (keyed); Risbec 1950: 598 (key to species of Africa); Muesebeck and Walkley 1951: 706 (catalog of species of U.S. and Canada); Muesebeck and Walkley 1956: 367 (citation of type species); Masner 1964: 137 (description); Baltazar 1966: 183 (catalog of species of the Philippines); Szabó 1966: 421 (key to species of Hungary known to the author); De Santis 1967: 226 (catalog of species of Argentina); Muesebeck and Walkley 1967: 299 (second supplement to Muesebeck and Walkley (1951)); Kozlov 1971: 40 (keyed); Masner 1976: 27 (key to Macroteleia Westwood and Triteleia Kieffer); Muesebeck 1977: 1 (description, key to species of the New World); Galloway 1978: 298 (description, key to species of Australia); Kozlov 1978: 614 (key to species of the European USSR); Muesebeck 1979: 1153 (catalog of species of U.S. and Canada); De Santis 1980: 313 (catalog of species of Brazil); Mani and Sharma 1982: 168 (description, key to species of India); Saraswat 1982: 343 (key to species of India); Galloway and Austin 1984: 9, 14 (list of species described from Australia, keyed); Kozlov and Kononova 1987: 93 (key to species of Palearctic region); Kozlov and Kononova 1990: 95, 173, 188, 189 (description, key to species of Palearctic, keyed); Carpenter 1992: 471 (fossil references); Johnson 1992: 423 (catalog of world species); Kononova 1995: 61, 69 (keyed, diagnosis, key to species of Russian Far East); Austin and Field 1997: 22, 689 (structure of ovipositor system, discussion of phylogenetic relationships); Lê 2000: 31, 52 (keyed, description, key to species); Loiácono and Margaría 2002: 557 (catalog of Brazilian species); Kononova and Petrov 2003: 604, 605 (description, key to species of Palearctic region); Rajmohana K 2006: 117, 125 (description, keyed); Kononova and Kozlov 2008: 22, 230, 231 (description, keyed, key to species of Palearctic region); Popovici and Johnson 2012: 380 (description of internal genitalia).

Baeoneura Förster 1856: 100, 102. Original description. Type: Baeoneura floridana Ashmead, designated by Muesebeck and Walkley (1956). Howard 1886: 172 (keyed); Cresson 1887: 83, 313 (keyed, catalog of species of U.S. and Canada); Provancher 1888: 402 (description); Ashmead 1893: 210, 211, 234 (description, keyed); Ashmead 1894: 217 (keyed); Dalla Torre 1898: 498 (catalog of species); Ashmead 1903: 92, 94 (keyed); Brues 1908: 27, 28, 39 (diagnosis, list of species, keyed); Kieffer 1908b: 115 (keyed); Kieffer 1910b: 63, 72 (description, list of species, keyed); Kieffer 1913a: 223, 235 (description); Kieffer 1926: 267, 351 (description, keyed); Maneval 1940: 112 (keyed); Muesebeck and Walkley 1956: 335 (junior synonym of Macroteleia Westwood).

Macrotelia Förster 1856: 105 (diagnosis, spelling error).

Parapegus Kieffer 1908b: 149. Original description. Type: Apegus (Parapegus) punctatus Kieffer, designated by Kieffer (1910b). Kieffer 1913a: 232 (description); Kieffer 1914a: 306 (description, key to species of Europe and Algeria); Kieffer 1926: 273, 497 (description, keyed, key to species); Maneval 1940: 114 (keyed); Masner 1956: 235 (diagnosis, key to species); Muesebeck and Walkley 1956: 380 (citation of type species); Kozlov 1971: 40 (keyed); Masner 1976: 27 (junior synonym of Macroteleia Westwood); Kozlov 1978: 616 (key to species of the European USSR).

Prosapegus Kieffer 1908b: 121, 147. Original description. Type: Anteris elongata Ashmead, by monotypy and original designation, keyed. Brues 1908: 50 (diagnosis, list of species); Kieffer 1910b: 65, 85, 86 (description, list of species, keyed); Kieffer 1913a: 232 (description); Dodd 1920: 321 (diagnosis, taxonomic status); Kieffer 1926: 272, 488 (description, keyed); Dodd 1933: 75, 81 (comparison with Macroteleia Westwood, key to species of Australia); Muesebeck and Walkley 1951: 705 (catalog of species of U.S. and Canada); Muesebeck and Walkley 1956: 391 (citation of type species); Masner 1964: 137 (junior synonym of Macroteleia Westwood).

Stictoteleia Kieffer 1926: 272, 546. Original description. Type: Macroteleia virginiensis Ashmead, by original designation, keyed. Muesebeck and Walkley 1951: 706 (catalog of species of U.S. and Canada); Muesebeck and Walkley 1956: 400 (citation of type species); Masner 1964: 137 (junior synonym of Macroteleia Westwood).

Diagnosis.

Macroteleia is known as one of the longest and often the largest wasps in the subfamily Scelioninae . It may be distinguished from other genera of the subfamily by the combination of the following characters: marginal vein (R) distinctly elongate, as long as or longer than stigmal vein (r-rs) (Plate 4); propodeum without armature, divided into two separated halves (Plates 14B, 16D, 17D, 37B, 38D, 40B, 52B, 54B, 57B, 63B) or continuous medially (Plates 3A, 18D, 20B, 23B, 25D, 31D, 32C, 34B, 43B, 45B, 49B, 65B, 66D, 68B); wings hyaline or subhyaline (Plate 4), rarely with infuscations or darkening (Plate 60D); T6 in females strongly compressed laterally to form a wedge (Plate 5B); apex of T7 in males differentiated, truncate (Plates 6A, 8D, 10D, 12D, 35B, 47F, 50B, 55B, 58B, 61B) or excavate medially in New World species, pointed medially (Plates 6C, 15B, 21B, 24B, 26B, 28E, 41B, 46B, 69B) or cut off in Old World species, but never bidentate or bispinose ( Masner 1976; Muesebeck 1977).

Comments.

Macroteleia is mostly similar to Triteleia that found in China both in size and body shape. Masner (1976) mentioned that the two genera were often confused, but Triteleia can be distinguished by the fact that T6 in females strongly depressed dorsoventrally to form a flat triangle, often spined at the apex; T7 in males armed posterolaterally with 2 sharp spikes or at least tyiny points; propodeum often armed dorsally, protruded into teeth or at least dorsal points or forms a triangular protuberance. Habroteleia is also similar to Macroteleia , but can bedistinguished by having postmarginal vein (R1) absent or only rudimentary; propodeum spined posteromedially and at posterolateral corners; T6 in females strongly depressed dorsoventrally to form a flat triangle as in Triteleia . The following key is used to separate Triteleia and Habroteleia from Macroteleia with the fewest characters possible.

Key to separate Macroteleia , Triteleia and Habroteleia

Key to species of the genus Macroteleia from China

Females

(Unknown for Macroteleia carinigena , Macroteleia gracilis , Macroteleia boriviliensis and Macroteleia spinitibia )

Males

(Unknown for Macroteleia striatipleuron and Macroteleia rufa )