Aulacus Jurine, 1807

Jennings, John T., Parslow, Ben A. & Austin, Andrew D., 2018, Systematics of the parasitoid wasp genus Aulacus Jurine (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea: Aulacidae) from Australia, Zootaxa 4538 (1), pp. 1-113 : 6-7

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Aulacus Jurine, 1807
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Aulacus Jurine, 1807 View in CoL View at ENA

Aulacus Jurine 1801: 163 View in CoL . [nom. nud.]

Aulacus Jurine 1807: 89 View in CoL . Type species: Aulacus striatus Jurine 1807 , by monotypy (North America View in CoL and Europe).— Blanchard 1840: 300; Schletterer 1889: 489; Kieffer 1903: 383, 453; Bradley 1908: 120; Kieffer 1912: 344, 370; Hedicke 1939: 17; Townes 1950: 113; Oehlke 1983: 441; Koslov 1988: 243; Alekseev 1995: 39; Konishi 1990: 638; Smith 2001: 268; Jennings et al. 2004a: 116; Jennings et al. 2004b: 13; Jennings 2010 [on-line checklist]; Turrisi 2013: 327; Kuroda et al. 2016: 173.

Disphaeron Dahlbom 1837: 175 . Type species: Aulacus arcticus Dahlbom 1837 , by monotypy.—(syn. Hedicke 1939: 18)

Aulacinus Westwood 1868: 331 . Erected as a sub-genus of Aulacus View in CoL . Type species: Aulacus (Aulacinus) moerens Westwood 1868 , by monotypy.— Kieffer 1903: 481; Bradley 1908: 120; Kieffer 1912: 349; Hedicke 1939: 24 (syn. Townes 1950: 113)

Pammegischia Provancher 1882: 302 . Type species: Pammegischia burquei Provancher 1882 , by monotypy.— Kieffer 1903: 383; Bradley 1908: 120; Kieffer 1912: 346; Townes 1938: 254; Hedicke 1939: 23. (syn. Kieffer 1902: 11)

Parafoenus Kieffer 1910: 350 View in CoL . No species included. Type species: Parafoenus formosus Kieffer 1912 , by subsequent monotypy.— Kieffer 1912: 345; Hedicke 1939: 26. (syn. Townes 1950: 113)

Neuraulacinus Kieffer 1910: 350 . Type species: Neuraulacinus vespiformis Kieffer 1910 , by subsequent designation, see Kieffer 1912: 358 (designated from three species included by Kieffer 1911).— Kieffer 1912: 358; Hedicke 1939: 26. (syn. Townes 1950: 113)

Micraulacinus Kieffer 1910: 350 View in CoL . Type species: Micraulacinus elegans Kieffer 1910 , by subsequent monotypy, see Kieffer 1912: 348.— Kieffer 1912: 348; Hedicke 1939: 24. (syn. Townes 1950: 113)

Disaulacinus Kieffer 1910: 350 . Type species: Disaulacinus flavimanus Kieffer 1911 , by subsequent monotypy, see Kieffer 1911: 224.— Kieffer 1912: 361; Hedicke 1939: 23. (syn. Crosskey 1953: 759)

Pycnaulacus Cushman 1929: 17 . Type species: Pycnaulacus brevicaudus Cushman 1929 , by original designation.—(syn. Townes 1950: 113)

Diagnosis of Aulacus based on Australian species. Head usually without occipital carina (very rarely present laterally, if so, weak (narrow)); frons with or without a transverse carina above antennal sockets; 14 antennomeres in female, 13 antennomeres in male; scape usually strongly convex in lateral view, much thicker than pedicel and flagellomeres; antennal insertions low on face, near lower margin of eyes; eyes circular or subcircular, remote from the mandibles; pronotum without angular process; metapostnotum present between propodeum and metanotum as a distinct sclerotisation; propodeum pyramidal, metasoma inserted high on the apex (e.g., Fig. 16G View FIGURE 16 ); first metasomal tergite (T1) and second tergite (T2) fused dorsally, forming a petiole (e.g., Figs 19H View FIGURE 19 , 38H View FIGURE 38 ); hind coxa with (e.g., Figs 2F View FIGURE 2 , 30F View FIGURE 30 ) or without a groove (e.g., Fig. 15F View FIGURE 15 ) or notch on inner ventral surface, the apposed grooves or notches forming an ovipositor guide; hind trochanter with a transverse trochanteral groove (e.g., Fig. 5D View FIGURE 5 ); prefemur (trochantellus) present; each tarsal claw with one basal tooth (sometimes difficult to see); fore wings not plicate at rest; fore wing vein 2-Rs+M generally long, second discal cell elongate, vein 2m-cu present, vein 2r-m often absent, largely spectral when present, vein 3r-m present, often largely spectral (see Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ); ovipositor exserted, protruding well beyond apex of metasoma.

Comments. Aulacus was first proposed as a genus by Jurine (1801) but was a nomen nudum because no species were included. In 1807, Jurine rectified this by describing Aulacus striatus . Early authors, however, did not define the generic limits of Aulacus , so a number of genera were erected without due consideration of interspecific variation. This resulted in a proliferation of new genera: Disaulacinus Kieffer , Disphaeron Dahlbom and Micraulacinus Kieffer from Australia, Neuraulacinus Kieffer from Australia and South America , Parafoenus Kieffer from South America , and Pycnaulacus Cushman from the USA. By 1912, Kieffer had recognised some 41 species in six genera as well as the subgenus Aulacinus Westwood. Of these, 17 species were Australian. Although Kieffer (1902) had synonymised Pammegischia Provancher with Aulacus , the mainly North American Pammegischia were not transferred to Aulacus until much later ( Townes 1938). In his 1939 catalog, Hedicke synonymised Disphaeron and included a number of additional species in the other genera. Townes (1950) evaluated various characters, particularly wing venation, and in the process defined the generic limits of Aulacus , leading him to synonymise Aulacinus , Micraulacinus , Neuraulacinus , Parafoenus , and Pycnaulacus with Aulacus . However, Townes erroneously synonymised Disaulacinus with Aulacostethus Philippi (now Pristaulacus Kieffer ). Disaulacinus was later synonymised with Aulacus by Crosskey (1953). Since Crosskey (1953), the classification has remained stable. Smith (2001) provided a world catalog of Aulacidae , including 18 Australian species. Jennings & Austin (2004a, b) added six new Aulacus species from South Australia and Western Australia (see also checklist of Australian species in Jennings 2010 & Turrisi 2017).

Based on morphological analyses, Turrisi et al. (2009) found Aulacus to be paraphyletic. However, this needs to be confirmed by a comprehensive global phylogenetic analysis. As there have not been any further attempts to examine species relationships, here we continue to place the Australian aulacid taxa with simple hind tarsal claws (i.e. not pectinate) in Aulacus (see Jennings et al. 2004a).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Loc

Aulacus Jurine, 1807

Jennings, John T., Parslow, Ben A. & Austin, Andrew D. 2018
2018
Loc

Pycnaulacus

Townes, H. K. 1950: 113
Cushman, R. A. 1929: 17
1929
Loc

Parafoenus

Townes, H. K. 1950: 113
Hedicke, H. 1939: 26
Kieffer, J. - J. 1912: 345
Kieffer, J. - J. 1910: 350
1910
Loc

Neuraulacinus

Townes, H. K. 1950: 113
Hedicke, H. 1939: 26
Kieffer, J. - J. 1912: 358
Kieffer, J. - J. 1912: 358
Kieffer, J. - J. 1910: 350
1910
Loc

Micraulacinus

Townes, H. K. 1950: 113
Hedicke, H. 1939: 24
Kieffer, J. - J. 1912: 348
Kieffer, J. - J. 1912: 348
Kieffer, J. - J. 1910: 350
1910
Loc

Disaulacinus

Crosskey, R. W. 1953: 759
Hedicke, H. 1939: 23
Kieffer, J. - J. 1912: 361
Kieffer, J. - J. 1911: 224
Kieffer, J. - J. 1910: 350
1910
Loc

Aulacinus Westwood 1868: 331

Townes, H. K. 1950: 113
Hedicke, H. 1939: 24
Kieffer, J. - J. 1912: 349
Bradley, J. C. 1908: 120
Kieffer, J. - J. 1903: 481
1903
Loc

Pammegischia

Hedicke, H. 1939: 23
Townes, H. K. 1938: 254
Kieffer, J. - J. 1912: 346
Bradley, J. C. 1908: 120
Kieffer, J. - J. 1903: 383
Kieffer, J. - J. 1902: 11
Provancher, L. A. 1882: 302
1882
Loc

Disphaeron

Hedicke, H. 1939: 18
Dahlbom, G. 1837: 175
1837
Loc

Aulacus

Turrisi, G. F. 2013: 327
Jennings, J. T. & Austin, A. D. & Stevens, N. B. 2004: 116
Jennings, J. T. & Austin, A. D. & Stevens, N. B. 2004: 13
Smith, D. R. 2001: 268
Alekseev, V. N. 1995: 39
Koslov, M. A. 1988: 243
Oehlke, J. 1983: 441
Townes, H. K. 1950: 113
Hedicke, H. 1939: 17
Kieffer, J. - J. 1912: 344
Bradley, J. C. 1908: 120
Kieffer, J. - J. 1903: 383
Schletterer, A. 1889: 489
Blanchard, E. 1840: 300
Jurine, L. 1807: 89
1807
Loc

Aulacus

Jurine, L. 1801: 163
1801
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