Baeognatha Kokujev, 1903

Stevens, Nicholas B., Austin, Andrew D. & Jennings, John T., 2010, Synopsis of Australian agathidine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae), Zootaxa 2480, pp. 1-26 : 8-9

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.195400

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6209232

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scientific name

Baeognatha Kokujev, 1903
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Baeognatha Kokujev, 1903 View in CoL , stat. rev.

( Figs 4 View FIGURE 4 C, 6A, 8A)

Baeognatha Kokujev, 1903: 243 View in CoL ; Type species: Baeognatha turanica Kokujev, 1903 View in CoL , by monotypy; Shenefelt, 1970b: 367 [catalogue]; Bhat & Gupta, 1977: 86 [key, descriptions]; Nixon, 1986: 229 [key, descriptions]; Sharkey, 1992: 441 [in tribe Microdini]; Yu et al., 2005 [catalogue]; Sharkey et al., 2009: 47 [as synonym of Therophilus ].

Camptothlipsis Enderlein, 1920: 166 ; Type species: Camptothlipsis costalis Enderlein, 1920 , by original designation; Shenefelt, 1970b: 378 [catalogue]; Bhat & Gupta, 1977: 78 [key, descriptions]; Tobias, 1976: 214 [synonym of Baeognatha Kokujev, 1903 View in CoL ]; Nixon, 1986: 229 [synonym of Baeognatha View in CoL ]; Simbolotti & Achterberg, 1992: 6 [synonym of Bassus View in CoL ]; Sharkey et al. 2006: 556 [synonym of Bassus View in CoL ]; Sharkey et al., 2009 [reinstated]. syn. nov.

Diagnosis. Length: 3–5 mm; colour: commonly mostly yellow with variable black or dark brown markings ( Figs 8 View FIGURE 8 A); lateral carinae on frons always absent; notauli present and distinctly scrobiculate (e.g., Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 B); claws non–cleft with rounded basal lobes present (e.g., Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 C); mid tibial preapical spines always present (e.g., Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 D); fore wing cell 1-RS absent in Australian species ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 C), however, does vary from absent to small cell present in type species ( Simbolotti and Achterberg 1992); ovipositor length greater than 0.5 metasoma length (e.g., Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 B).

Comments. Historically, species characterised by the absence of fore wing cell 1–RS were classified as either Camptothlipsis or Baeognatha . Camptothlipsis was treated as a synonym of Baeognatha (e.g., Tobias (1976) and Nixon (1986)) prior to Camptothlipsis being synonymised with Bassus by Simbolotti and Achterberg (1992). In Sharkey et al. (2006), two undescribed species (treated as Bassus ), characterised by the absence of fore wing cell 1–RS and granulate sculpturing on T1, were resolved as sister taxa to one another. This result prompted Sharkey et al. (2009) to reinstate the concept of Camptothlipsis as defined by Bhat and Gupta (1977) who used scupturing of the propodeum and anterior metasomal tergites (viz. granulate versus non–granulate, usually striate) to differentiate Camptothlipsis from Baeognatha . In addition, Sharkey et al. (2009) synonymised Baeognatha with Therophilus . However, examination of Australian material, suggests that the granulate sculpturing patterns of the propodeum and anterior metasomal tergites are not reliable generic level characters because they also occur in a number of Therophilus species. Therefore, Baeognatha as interpreted by Nixon (1986), is reinstated.

Species richness and distribution. No Australian species of Baeognatha have been described. The genus represents a relatively small component of the Australian fauna, comprising approximately six species that occur in the Timorian and Torresian regions of the continent.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Loc

Baeognatha Kokujev, 1903

Stevens, Nicholas B., Austin, Andrew D. & Jennings, John T. 2010
2010
Loc

Camptothlipsis

Sharkey 2006: 556
Simbolotti 1992: 6
Nixon 1986: 229
Bhat 1977: 78
Tobias 1976: 214
Shenefelt 1970: 378
Enderlein 1920: 166
1920
Loc

Baeognatha

Sharkey 2009: 47
Sharkey 1992: 441
Nixon 1986: 229
Bhat 1977: 86
Shenefelt 1970: 367
Kokujev 1903: 243
1903
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