Genus Sternaulopius Fischer, 1965

Sternaulopius Fischer, 1965: 311; Wharton, 2006: 317. Type species (monobasic and by original designation). Sternaulopius bisternaulicus Fischer, 1965 .

Diagnosis.

Below precoxal sulcus with a distinct and sculptured second sulcus (= sternaulus; Figs 39, 50); malar space largely smooth, in East Asian species deeply impressed (Figs 43, 54, 56); mandible gradually widened basally and without basal lamella; occipital carina absent medio-dorsally; medio-posterior depression of mesoscutum present as small point-like depression (Afrotropical spp.) or part of notauli and medium-sized (Asian spp.; Fig. 40); propodeum coarsely reticulate-rugose (Figs 45, 51); dorsope of first tergite deep (van Achterberg 1993, pl. 36) or shallow (Asian sp.; Fig. 41); setose part of ovipositor sheath 0.3–1.0 × as long as first tergite.

Distribution.

Palaearctic [Japan (new record); China (Jilin)], Oriental [China (Sichuan)] and Afrotropical (Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Madagascar) regions. The European records concern Biophthora Foerster, 1863 and Sternaulopius s. str. has not yet been found in Europe.

Biology.

Parasitoids of fruit-infesting dipterous larvae of Tephritidae ( Ceratitis MacLeay, 1829 and Trirhithrum Bezzi, 1918).

Key to species of the genus Sternaulopius Fischer