Anagroidea, Girault, 1915

Huber, John T., Read, Jennifer D. & Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2024, Illustrated key to the genera and catalogue of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) in the Neotropical region, Zootaxa 5557 (1), pp. 1-263 : 27

ANAGROIDEA Girault, 1915

( Figs 19–24 )

Anagroidea Girault, 1915 [228]: 164. Type species: Eustochus dubius Girault, 1913 , by original designation. See Huber et al. (2020) for generic synonyms and their type species.

Diagnosis. Head and mesosoma with distinctly raised, reticulate sculpture ( Figs 19 , 22 ); head in lateral view with face angular ( Fig. 24 ); mandibles directed ventrally, not crossing medially when closed ( Fig. 19a ), operating in an anterior/posterior direction; antenna double geniculate ( Fig. 20 ); hind wing often with membrane extending narrowly to base of venation, wing width near apex as wide as at level of hamuli, and with widely rounded apex ( Fig. 21 ); foretibial spur comb-like.

Remarks. Anagroidea appears to be closely related to Cleruchus group of genera. It is placed in its own group because of the mandibles that move in an anteroposterior direction, unlike any other genus of Mymaridae in the Western Hemisphere but as in Eubroncus Yoshimoto, Kozlov & Trjapitzin , the sister genus to Anagroidea , and Ceratanaphes Noyes & Valentine, and Old World genus in the Cleruchus group.

Neotropical hosts. Unknown.

Distribution. No species are described from the Neotropical Region but specimens have been collected from about 10 countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean islands (in CNC and UCRC).

Important reference. Huber et al. (2020).

Figures

FIGURES 19–21. Anagroidea. 19a, head, anterior; 19b, head, posterior; 20, antenna; 21, wings.

FIGURES 22–24. Anagroidea. 22, mesosoma, dorsal; 23, metasoma, lateral, 24, body, lateral.