Brachymeria Westwood 1829
Creators: name: Gawas, Sandesh M.
name: Gupta, Ankita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chalcididae
Brachymeria

description: Brachymeria Westwood, 1829
Brachymeria Westwood (in Stephens), 1829: 36.
Type species: Chalcis minuta Fabricius; designated by Westwood, 1839
Thaumatelia Kirby, 1883: 60.
Type species: Chalcis separata Walker, by monotypy (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Halstead 1991)
Oncochalcis Cameron, 1904: 162.
Type species: Oncochalcis marginata Cameron, by monotypy; (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Nikol’skaya 1960)
Holochalcis Kieffer, 1905: 258.
Type species: Holochalcis madagascariensis Kieffer, by subsequent designation of Gahan and Fagan (1923); (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Narendran (in Subba Rao and Hayat), 1987b)
Tumidicoxa Girault, 1911: 378.
Type species: Tumidicoxa nigra Girault, by original designation; (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Girault (1913))
Thaumatelia Kirby, 1883: 60.
Type species Chalcis separata Walker, by monotypy; (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Halstead 1991)
Thaumateliana Girault, 1912: 160–161.
Type species: Thaumateliana bicolour Girault, by monotypy; (synonymised with Thaumatelia Kirby by Narendran and Verghese 1989)
Pseudepitelia Girault, 1913: 104.
Type species: Pseudepitelia rubrifemur Girault, by original designation; (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Girault 1915a)
Brachepitelia Girault, 1913a: 106.
Type species: Brachepitelia rubripes Girault, by original designation and monotypy; (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Girault (1915a))
Tumidicoxoides Girault, 1913b: 86.
Type species: Tumidicoxoides kurandaensis Girault, by original designation; (synonymy with Brachymeria Westwood by Girault (1926))
Tumidicoxella Girault, 1913c: 74. As a subgenus of Tumidicoxa;
type species: Tumidicoxa (Tumidicoxella) nigra Girault by original designation
Microchalcis Girault, 1915a: 328.
Type species: Microchalcis atricorpus Girault by original designation; (synonymised by Bouček, 1988)
Dirrhinomorpha Girault and Dodd (in Girault 1915a): 327.
Type species: Dirrhinomorpha angusta Girault and Dodd, by original designation (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood and treated as subgenus of Brachymeria by Bouček, 1988)
Meyeriella Krausse, 1917: 95.
Type species: Meyeriella indica Krausse, by monotypy (synonymised with Brachymeria Westwood by Narendran, 1986)
Neobrachymeria Masi, 1929c: 196–198. As a subgenus of Brachymeria.
Type species: Brachymeria confalonierii Masi by original designation
Australochalcis Girault, 1939: 326.
Type species: Australochalcis humilicrus Girault, by original designation and monotypy (listed as synonym of Brachymeria Westwood by Bouček,1988)
Matsumurameria Habu, 1960: 209. As a subgenus of Brachymeria.
Type species: Chalcis taiwanus Matsumura, by original designation
Gahanula Burks, 1960: 261.
Type species: Brachymeria discreta Gahan, by original designation (as a subgenus of Brachymeria)
Key to species of Brachymeria Westwood, 1829
1. Post-orbital carina absent (Figure 80)...................... ...................... B. carbonaria (Zehntner)
– Post-orbital carina present (Figure 81)......................................................................................... 2
2. Hind femur black with yellow at apex (Figure 90); scutellum distinctly bilobed with dense silvery pubescence on all around the apical margin (Figure 84).............................. ......................................................................................................................... B. megaspila (Cameron)
– Completely or partially not as above (Figure 85) .................................................................... 3
3. Hind femur red with a yellow patch at the apex (Figure 88) B. bengalensis (Cameron)
– Hind femur black with apex yellow (Figure 89) ....................................................................... 4
4. Gaster globose in lateral view (Figure 91); clava more than 2.0× as long as the previous segment.................................................................................... B. euploeae (Westwood)
– Gaster acuminate in lateral view (Figure 92); clava less than 2.0× as long as the previous segment............................................................................................ B. jambolana Gahan
description: Published as part of Gawas, Sandesh M. & Gupta, Ankita, 2024, Taxonomic studies on chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) of Goa, India, with an illustrated key to genera and species, pp. 342-381 in Journal of Natural History 58 (9 - 12) on pages 354-355, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2315671, http://zenodo.org/record/11059701