Aphelopinae R. Perkins 1912
Creators: name: Xu, Zaifu
name: Olmi, Massimo
name: He, Junhua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Dryinidae

description: I. Subfamily Aphelopinae R. Perkins, 1912
Dryininae partim Kieffer in Kieffer & Marshall 1905: 215.
Anteoninae partim Kieffer in Kieffer & Marshall 1906: 510.
Aphelopinae R. Perkins 1912: 7; Richards 1939: 278; Muesebeck & Walkley 1951: 1042; J. Perkins 1976: 11; Krombein 1979: 1250; Olmi 1984: 43; Olmi 1993a: 187; Olmi 1994: 35; Olmi 1999: 79; He & Xu 2002: 46.
Aphelopini Kieffer 1914b: 214.
Biaphelopinae Olmi 1984: 94 (synonymized by Olmi 1996d); Olmi 1993a: 188.
Type genus. Aphelopus Dalman, 1823, by monotypy at time of the description of Aphelopinae by R. Perkins (1912).
Diagnosis. Female (Plates 2A, 5A, 10A, B): fully winged; head hypognathous; occipital carina complete; ocelli present; face and partly clypeus without strong median raised carina; clypeus normally large, about as wide as, or smaller or slightly wider than eyes; antenna without rhinaria; palpal formula 5/2, 5/3, 6/2 or 6/3; fore wing usually with only costal cell enclosed by pigmented veins (Plates 2A, 5A), occasionally also median cell enclosed by pigmented veins (Plate 10A, B); fore wing with stigmal vein and pterostigma (Plates 2A, 5A, 10A, B); course of fore wing veins not marked by dark stripes (Plates 5A, 10A); hindwing (Plates 5A, 10A) hyaline, with costal cell, without dark medial longitudinal stripe; protarsus not chelate (Plates 2A, 5A, 10A, B); tibial spurs 1/1/2. Male (Plates 3A, 5B, 11A, B): fully winged; occipital carina complete; palpal formula 5/2, 5/3, 6/2 or 6/3; fore wing usually with only costal cell enclosed by pigmented veins (Plates 3A, 5B, 11A, B), occasionally also median cell enclosed by pigmented veins; fore wing with stigmal vein and pterostigma (Plates 3A, 5B, 11A, B); course of fore wing veins not marked by dark stripes; hindwing (Plates 5B, 11A) hyaline, with costal cell, without dark medial longitudinal stripe; protarsus not chelate (Plates 3A, 5B, 11A, B); basivolsella completely situated down distivolsella distal apex (Plates 6B, 11F); tibial spurs 1/1/2.
Distribution. Worldwide.
Hosts. Membracidae and Cicadellidae Typhlocybinae (Guglielmino & Olmi, 1997, 2006).
World species. Ninety species are known, thirty three in the Oriental region.
World genera. Two genera are known, both in the Oriental region.
Key to the genera
Females and males
1. Fore wing with stigmal vein regularly curved (Plate 2A); epistomal suture situated below the imaginary line joining antennal toruli (Plate 4F)......................................................................1. Aphelopus Dalman
- Fore wing with stigmal vein straight (Plate 11A), or forming an angle between the proximal and distal parts (Plate 4E); epistomal suture situated at same level of antennal toruli (Plate 4G)................................... 2. Crovettia Olmi
description: Published as part of Xu, Zaifu, Olmi, Massimo & He, Junhua, 2013, Dryinidae of the Oriental region (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), pp. 1-460 in Zootaxa 3614 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5278372