Bocchinae Richards, 1939
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IV. Subfamily Bocchinae Richards, 1939
Bocchini Richards 1939: 189; Muesebeck & Walkley 1951: 1039; Nagy 1967: 334.
Bocchinae Olmi 1984: 599 ; 1993a: 193; 1993c: 46; 1995b: 502; 1999: 152; Olmi & Bechly 2001: 41; He & Xu 2002: 237; Olmi & Virla 2006: 408; Virla & Olmi 2008: 370; Xu et al. 2013: 223; Olmi & Virla 2014: 206; Olmi & Xu 2015: 116; Olmi et al. 2016: 71.
Type genus. Bocchus Ashmead 1893 , designated by Olmi (1984).
Diagnosis. ♀ ( Figs 100A, B View FIGURE 100 ): fully winged ( Figs 100A, B View FIGURE 100 ); occasionally brachypterous or micropterous or apterous; occipital carina complete; ocelli present; mandible with one, two, three or four teeth ( Figs 8A, B, C, D View FIGURE 8 ); quadridentate mandible usually with three large teeth and one rudimentary tooth between two posterior teeth ( Fig. 8B View FIGURE 8 ); rarely quadridentate mandible with teeth becoming regularly progressively larger from dorsal to ventral tooth (as in Fig. 6B View FIGURE 6 ); palpal formula 6/3; antenna without tufts of long setae and without ADOs; pronotal tubercle present; epicnemium not visible, because lateral regions of prothorax continuous with mesopleura (as in Fig. 7C View FIGURE 7 ); forewing of fully winged specimens with three cells enclosed by pigmented veins (C, R and 1Cu) ( Figs 100A, B View FIGURE 100 ); forewing with 2r-rs&Rs vein ( Figs 100A, B View FIGURE 100 ); rarely 2r-rs&Rs vein absent; pterostigma of fully winged specimens present ( Fig. 100B View FIGURE 100 ), often very reduced ( Fig. 100A View FIGURE 100 ); protarsus chelate ( Figs 100A, B View FIGURE 100 ); chela with rudimentary claw ( Fig. 101A View FIGURE 101 ); protrochanter short and slightly longer than broad; tibial spurs 1/1/1, or 1/1/2. ♂ ( Figs 100C, D View FIGURE 100 ): fully winged ( Figs 100C, D View FIGURE 100 ), rarely micropterous ( Fig. 107E View FIGURE 107 ) or apterous ( Mystrophorus apterus Ponomarenko , not present in the Afrotropical region); occipital carina complete; mandible with one, two, three or four teeth ( Figs 8A, B, C, D View FIGURE 8 ); quadridentate mandible usually with three large teeth and one rudimentary tooth between two posterior teeth ( Fig. 8B View FIGURE 8 ); palpal formula 6/3; epicnemium invisible, because lateral regions of prothorax continuous with mesopleura ( Fig. 7C View FIGURE 7 ); in fully winged specimens forewing with three cells enclosed by pigmented veins (C, R and 1Cu) ( Figs 100C, D View FIGURE 100 ); in fully winged specimens forewing with 2r-rs&Rs vein ( Figs 100C, D View FIGURE 100 ); pterostigma present ( Figs 100C, D View FIGURE 100 ); tibial spurs 1/1/2.
Distribution. Worldwide.
Hosts. Caliscelidae , Tropiduchidae , Cicadellidae (except Idiocerinae , Macropsinae and Typhlocybinae ) ( Guglielmino et al. 2013).
World species. 112 species are known, 33 in the Afrotropical region.
World genera. Three genera are known, one in the Afrotropical region.
Remarks. The following genera have not been recorded from the Afrotropical region: Mystrophorus Förster 1856 (Western Palaearctic) and Mirodryinus Ponomarenko 1972 (Western Palaearctic). Larvae of Mystrophorus were described by Guglielmino & Bückle (2010).
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