Heterospilus Haliday

Belokobylskij, Sergey A. & Kula, Robert R., 2012, Review of the brachypterous, micropterous, and apterous Braconidae of the cyclostome lineage (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) from the Palearctic Region 3240, Zootaxa 3240 (1), pp. 1-62 : 8

Genus Heterospilus Haliday

Heterospilus , with about 106 described species known collectively from all zoogeographic regions, is one of the most species-rich genera of Doryctinae . Richness is highest in the Neotropics ( Yu et al. 2005), and hundreds of species are undescribed (P. Marsh pers. comm.). Only three species of this genus exhibit brachyptery (both sexes): H. belokobylskij , H. hemipterus , and H. vincenti . Only H. hemipterus occurs in the Palearctic Region ( Fischer 1960). Jakimavicius (1968) described a brachypterous genus and species from Lithuania that was later placed in Heterospilus ( Belokobylskij 1983) ; we consider it a synonym of H. hemipterus (see below).