Character Details

Character

Insertion of mesocoxa [187]

Description

This character has long been used as a feature to distinguish Eupelmidae (state 0) from Encyrtidae (state 1). Both of these taxa have an elongate, almost horizontal mesopleuron and the difference is always obvious, but it can be very difficult to assess accurately in some pteromalid lineage taxa and some Tanaostigmatidae, in which the mesopleuron is orientated obliquely.

States

-: unassigned
notes:
coded examples: Chartocerus kartiniae
0: anteroventral margin distinctly posterior to midline, widely separated from procoxa
7332_mximage
1.Polstonia pelagocorypha
7333_mximage
2.Orasema
 
notes:
coded examples: Cleonymus Latreille, 1809, Cales noacki Howard, 1907, Coccophagus rusti, Cirrospilus coachellae, Eurytoma gigantea (toggle remainder)
1: anteroventral margin at or anterior to midline of mesopleuron, more equidistant from insertion of pro- and metacoxa
7335_mximage
1.Cheiloneurus flaccus
 
notes: Encyrtidae
coded examples: Cheiloneurus flaccus, Kapala floridana (Ashmead, 1885), Neolosbanus palgravei (Girault, 1922), Savzdargia hofferi (Pilipyuk, 1974), Anagyrus pseudococci (Girault, 1915) (toggle remainder)