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A revision of the European Agathidinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) G. E. J. Nixon c/o Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD I GENERAL LIB Contents Synopsis 183 Introduction 183 Depositories 184 Taxonomic characters 184 Biology 185 Host records 186 Agathidinae 187 Key to European genera 188 Synonymic list of species 188 Disophrys Forster 190 Cremnops Forster 191 Agathis Latreille 192 Rhamphagathis Tobias 214 Microdus Nees von Esenbeck 215 Earinus Wesmael 226 Baeognatha Kokujev 229 Species inquirendae 230 Acknowledgements 230 References 230 Index 242 Synopsis Seven genera of the braconid subfamily Agathidinae are revised for the European zoogeographical region . Keys to the genera and species are provided. Fifty-four species are recognized as valid, 11 are newly synonymized, and 11, including an extralimital species from Jordan, are described as new. Lectotypes are designated for 13 nominal species. Authentic host records are included together with an account of the biology of the subfamily. Introduction Although the braconid subfamily Agathidinae has a world-wide distribution, it is poorly represented in the western Palaearctic region. The present revision deals with the fauna of Europe, including European U.S.S.R., and Turkey; one species from Jordan is included for comparative purposes. Earlier contributions to the taxonomy of European Agathidinae are those of Nees von Esenbeck (1834), Wesmael (1837), Reinhard (1867), Thomson (1895), Marshall (1885; 1888) and Fahringer (1937). The more recent, notable taxonomic revisions on Palaearctic Agathidinae are those of Telenga (1955) and Tobias (1976<z), the former concentrating on the European species, the latter on the Central Asian species. Their combined research reveals an agathidine fauna that hardly differs numerically from that covered in the present work. Even Tobias's paper (19766) on the Far Eastern species of Microdus includes only four that are not represented in Europe. The Agathidinae is well represented in the tropics and Shenefelt's catalogue (1970) lists Bull. Br. Mus. not. Hist. (Ent.) 52 (3): 183-242 Issued 24 April 1986

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A revision of the European Agathidinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

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