Tetracampinae

 Epiclerus sp., photographed by Simon Van Noort.

Belongs within: Tetracampidae.

The Tetracampinae is a group of small parasitic wasps that are mostly known to develop as parasites of leaf-miners or in eggs of leaf-feeding insects (Bouček 1988). Male tetracampines have five tarsomeres in the fore- and hindlegs, but only four in the midlegs (Heraty et al. 2013).

Synapomorphies (from Heraty et al. 2013): Male antenna with six flagellomeres between F1 and clava; head with upper ocular and transfacial sulci present anteriorly; clypeus inflected into oral cavity, not on same plane as face; pronotum with isolated large bristle on posterolateral corner; forewing with speculum absent (specular area setose both dorsally and ventrally).

TetracampinaeHB13
| i. s.: Niticampe Bouček 1988B88
| `--*N. metallica Bouček 1988B88
| Cassidocida Crawford 1913B88
| `--*C. aspidomorphaeB88
|--Diplesiostigma Girault 1920HB13, B88 [incl. Xanthopirene Girault 1929B88]
| |--*D. particolor Girault 1920 [incl. *Xanthopirene shakespearei Girault 1929]B88
| `--D. bisetosum Bouček 1988B88
`--+--Epiclerus Haliday 1844HB13, B88 [incl. Diparellomyia Girault 1913B88]
| |--*E. panyas (Walker 1839)B88, W39 [=Entedon panyasB88]
| |--E. aligherini (Girault 1926) [=Tetracampe aligherini]B88
| |--E. australiensis (Girault & Dodd in Girault 1915) (see below for synonymy)B88
| |--E. haeckeli (Girault 1913) [=*Diparellomyia haeckeli]B88
| |--E. longicornis Bouček 1988B88
| `--E. temenusMH11
`--+--Foersterella Dalla Torre 1897HB13, B88 [=Hyperbius Förster 1878 non Stal 1867B88]
| |--*F. flavipes [=Tetracampe flavipes]B88
| |--F. reptansMH11
| `--F. scaposa Bouček 1988B88
`--Tetracampe Förster 1841HB13, B88
|--*T. impressaB88
|--T. africana [=Cassidocida africana]B88
`--T. avia Bouček 1988B88

Epiclerus australiensis (Girault & Dodd in Girault 1915) [=Tetracampe australiensis; incl. Toxeuma pax Girault 1915]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).

[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.

[MH11] Munro, J. B., J. M. Heraty, R. A. Burks, D. Hawks, J. Mottern, A. Cruaud, J.-Y. Rasplus & P. Jansta. 2011. A molecular phylogeny of the Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). PloS One 6 (11): e27023.

[W39] Walker, F. 1839. Monographia Chalciditum vol. 1. Hyppolitus Ballière: London.

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