Euplectrus

Belongs within: Eulophinae.

Euplectrus is a cosmopolitan genus of wasps developing as gregarius ectoparasites of caterpillars (Bouček 1988).

Characters (from Bouček 1988): Pronotum rather short, dorsally with a fine transverse carina. Scutellum lacking longitudinal grooves, sculpture mostly rather fine or almost smooth. Hind tibia with elongate spurs.

<==Euplectrus Westwood 1832B88 (see below for synonymy)
    |--*E. maculiventrisB88
    |--E. agaristae Crawford 1911B88
    |--E. australiensis Ashmead 1900B88
    |--E. bicolorHB13
    |--E. cairnsenses Girault 1913B88
    |--E. cariniscutum Girault 1915B88
    |--E. comstockiiRD77
    |--E. immargiventris Girault 1915B88
    |--E. kurandaensis Girault 1913B88
    |--E. laphygmaeB88
    |--E. leucotrophis Howard 1885GM79
    |--E. lutheri Girault 1924B88
    |--E. marginatus Ashmead 1885GM79
    |--E. melanocephalus Girault 1913B88
    |--E. migneti Girault 1936B88 [=Euplectrue (l. c.) mignetiG36]
    |--E. pachyscapha Girault 1917G17a
    |--E. platyhypenae Howard 1885GM79
    |--E. platypenae Howard 1885GM79
    |--E. pullipes Girault 1915B88
    |--E. scotti Girault 1913B88
    |--E. semimarginatus Girault 1917G17b
    |--E. seminigrifemur Girault 1924B88
    `--E. xanthocephalus Girault 1913B88

Euplectrus Westwood 1832^B88 [=Euplectrue (l. c.)^G37; incl. Diplectron Dahlbom 1857^B88, Heteroscapus Brèthes 1918^B88, Pachyscapha Howard 1897^B88, Rekabia Cameron 1904^B88]

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[B88] Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera): A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).

[G17a] Girault, A. A. 1917a. New chalcid flies. Privately published (reprinted: Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 72–77).

[G17b] Girault, A. A. 1917b. Descriptiones hymenopterorum chalcidoidicarum variorum cum observationibus. V. Privately published (reprinted: Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 116–131).

[G36] Girault, A. A. 1936. Terror-errors; and novitates of Pterygota (or earth realities not state-bound). Privately published (reprinted: Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 322–325).

[G37] Girault, A. A. 1937. New naturals, unorthodoxies and non-pollutions, viz. new hexapods. Privately published (reprinted: Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 326–328).

[GM79] Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 1–400.

[HB13] Heraty, J. M., R. A. Burks, A. Cruaud, G. A. P. Gibson, J. Liljeblad, J. Munro, J.-Y. Rasplus, G. Delvare, P. Janšta, A. Gumovsky, J. Huber, J. B. Woolley, L. Krogmann, S. Heydon, A. Polaszek, S. Schmidt, D. C. Darling, M. W. Gates, J. Mottern, E. Murray, A. D. Molin, S. Triapitsyn, H. Baur, J. D. Pinto, S. van Noort, J. George & M. Yoder. 2013. A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Cladistics 29: 466–542.

[RD77] Richards, O. W., & R. G. Davies. 1977. Imms’ General Textbook of Entomology 10^th ed. vol. 2. Classification and Biology. Chapman and Hall: London.