Streblocera Westwood, 1833

Shamim, Mohammad & O, Published, 2013, The genus Streblocera Westwood (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) from India, with descriptions of 9 new species, Turkish Journal of Zoology 37 (4), pp. 385-405 : 385-386

3.1. Streblocera Westwood

Streblocera Westwood, 1833: 342 . Type species Streblocera fulviceps Westwood, 1833 ; by monotypy.

Eutanycerus Foerster, 1862: 251 . Type species Eutanycerus halydayanus Foerster, 1862 ; by monotypy and original designation. Synonymy by Dalla Torre, 1898 (as subgenus of Streblocera by Belokobylskij [1987]). Cosmophoridia Hedqvist, 1955: 93 . Type species Cosmophorus flaviceps Marshall, 1897 ; by original designation. Synonymy by Čapek and Snoflák, 1959 (as subgenus of Streblocera by Belokobylskij [1987]). Asiastreblocera Belokobylskij, 1987: 162 . Type species Streblocera cornuta Chao, 1964 , by original designation (as subgenus of Streblocera by Belokobylskij [1987]).

Villocera Chen and van Achterberg, 1997: 123 . Type species Streblocera villosa Papp, 1985 by original designation (as subgenus of Streblocera ). Synonymy with subgenus Eutanycerus by Yu et al. (2009).

Diagnosis: Head transverse; female antenna raptorial, scape incrassate, 2–12× as long as wide, with basal horn, 1 or more basal flagellomeres usually with hook-like prominences; maxillary palp with 6 segments; labial palp with 3 segments; shortest distance between eyes of female greater than clypeus width; occipital carina complete, sometimes dorsomedially narrowly interrupted, ventrally joining or remaining separate from hypostomal carina; mesopleural disk, scutellar disk, and pronotum nitid; propodeum reticulate, rugose, or carinate with irregularly rugulose sculpture between carinae; forewing vein r–m absent, thus the second submarginal cell open; basal width of first metasomal tergite less than half the propodeum width; spiracles behind middle; second and following tergites smooth; fifth sternite sometimes with pair of teeth; ovipositor sheath slender, setose; ovipositor curved.

Remarks: Belokobylskij (1987) divided this genus into 4 subgenera: Streblocera s. str., Asiastreblocera Belokobylskij , Cosmophoridia Hedqvist , and Eutanycerus Foerster.