Charmontinae van Achterberg 1979
Creators: name: Rousse, Pascal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae

description: Key to the world species of Charmontinae
1. Third labial palpus as long as second; last flagellomere without an apical spine; 1Rs distinct, first discal cell of fore wing slightly petiolate (Fig. 1 A); tergite 1 nearly 3x longer than apically wide; Chile ... Charmontia inopina van Achterberg, 1979
- Third labial palpus reduced or absent, at most conspicuously shorter than second; last flagellomere with an apical spine; 1Rs indistinct, first discal cell of fore wing sessile or subsessile (Fig. 1 B); tergite 1 at most 2x longer than apically wide................................................................................................ Charmon spp. 2
2(1). Ocelli enlarged, ocellar diameter at least 1.5x post-ocellar line; Far East.......................................... 3
- Ocelli smaller, ocellar diameter at most about as long as post-ocellar line......................................... 5
3(2). Pterostigma brown to blackish brown; mesosoma black, rarely with dark reddish maculae; body length> 60 mm; Mongolia and Korea .................................................................. Charmon paloratus Papp, 1983
- Pterostigma yellowish; mesosoma blackish to dark reddish with lighter brownish to yellowish parts; body length <65 mm ..................................................................................................... 4
4(3). Tergite 1 smooth; notauli very shallow and smooth, anteriorly obsolete; Far Eastern Russia ............................................................................................... Charmon kozyrevskii Belokobylskij, 1998
- Tergite 1 longitudinally striate; notauli complete, deep and crenulate; Taiwan .... Charmon taiwanensis Chou and Hsu, 1995
5(2). 1cu-a shorter than 1Cu (Fig. 1 C); M+Cu basally unpigmented; Papua-New Guinea .................................................................................................... Charmon brevinervis van Achterberg, 1979
- 1cu-a longer than 1Cu (Fig. 1 B); M+Cu basally complete...................................................... 6
6(5). Notauli at least anteriorly obsolete, often totally absent; worldwide except South America and Australasian regions..................................................................................... Charmon extensor (L., 1758)
- Notauli complete.................................................................................... 7
7(6). Propodeum with a mid-longitudinal Y-shaped carina oriented backwards (Fig. 2 C); pterostigma blackish and dark testaceous; Reunion island................................................................... Charmon ramagei sp. nov.
- Propodeum mostly smooth, at most with faint rugosities, but without carina; pterostigma yellowish................... 8
8(7). Ovipositor less than 1.2x length fore wing; mesosoma reddish to dark reddish; worldwide except South America and Australasian regions............................................................. Charmon cruentatus Haliday, 1833
- Ovipositor more than 1.2x length fore wing; mesosoma dark brown with mesothorax yellow to reddish yellow; China ........................................................................... Charmon rufithorax Chen and He, 1996
description: Published as part of Rousse, Pascal, 2013, Charmon ramagei sp. nov., a new Charmontinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Reunion, with a synopsis of world species, pp. 583-588 in Zootaxa 3626 (4) on page 585, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3626.4.12, http://zenodo.org/record/217919