Dolichogenidea Viereck, 1911

Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., Austin, Andrew D. & Investigators, Citizen Science Participants Of Insect, 2021, Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia, Zootaxa 4949 (1), pp. 79-101 : 86-87

Dolichogenidea Viereck, 1911

Dolichogenidea Viereck, 1911: 173 (as a subgenus of Apanteles Foerster s.l.); generic status by Mason 1981: 34. Austin and Dangerfield 1992: 27. See Fernández-Triana et al. (2020) for a checklist and comments on the world fauna.

Type species, by original designation, Apanteles (Dolichogenidea) banksi Viereck.

Comments. Dolichogenidea has recently had the Australian fauna reviewed ( Fagan-Jeffries et al. 2018a, 2019), which raised the number of species described from the continent to 15, with many more potential species identified from COI barcoding data ( Fagan-Jeffries et al. 2019, Figure 8 ).

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FIGURE 8. Comparison of the propodeal areola between the holotype of A–B) Miropotes waikerieyeties and C) a female paratype of Miropotes burringbaris from the holotype locality of Rex Range Lookout (QDPC 0-169243). A) The measurements used for the propodeal areola measurements in the description and diagnosis of the new species: anterior-posterior line (ii, blue), transverse line (iii, yellow) and the carinae from the top of the pentagon to the anterior edge of the propodeum (i, red).