Neopius Gahan, 1917

Li, Xi-Ying, Achterberg, Cornelis van & Tan, Ji-Cai, 2013, Revision of the subfamily Opiinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from Hunan (China), including thirty-six new species and two new genera, ZooKeys 268, pp. 1-186 : 41

Neopius Gahan, 1917 stat. n.

Neopius Gahan, 1917: 203. Type species (by original designation): Neopius carinaticeps Gahan, 1917 (= Opius rudis Wesmael, 1835)[senior synonym examined].

Notes.

Small Holarctic genus that has not yet been found in Hunan, but likely occurs in northern China. The type species occurs in Far East Russia and Korea ( Yu et al. 2012). Traditionally Neopius Gahan has been included as synonym in the subgenus Xynobius (e.g. Fischer 1972b) and recently ( Papp 2005) as a subgenus of the genus Xynobius . Provisionally, Quicke et al. (1997) included Neopius as a subgenus in Phaedrotoma because it has no apomorphies in common with Xynobius or Opius s.s. and Phaedrotoma was the "taxonomic dustbin genus" where it was included on the basis of plesiomorphies. The molecular data presented here indicate that it is not closely related to Phaedrotoma and, consequently, it is treated as independent genus with its own apomorphies (occipital carina secondarily complete dorsally (sometimes irregular and weak medio-dorsally) and frons distinctly granulate).