Chalcidoidea Morphology Matrix

Character

Paratergites between Mt8+Mt9 and outer plates of ovipositor [215]

Description

Paratergites are elongate, sclerotized or at least differentiated membranous filaments that occur in the membranous region between the syntergum (Mt8+Mt9) and the outer plate of the ovipositor posterior to each cercus in some Encyrtidae (par, Fig. 7f) and a few Aphelinidae. Paratergites are correlated with advanced cerci and may represent lateral portions of the syntergum that were isolated from the median part of the syntergum when the cerci were displaced anteriorly on the syntergum (Noyes and Hayat, 1994). They are usually sclerotized, but are membranous in some species of Tetracnemini (Encyrtidae).

States

-: unassigned

notes:

coded examples: Archaeoteleia mellea, Cynipencyrtus flavus Ishii, 1928, Notaspidium giganteum Halstead, 1991, Samariola camerounensis Hayat, 1983, Protaphelinus nikolskajae (Yasnosh, 1963) (toggle remainder)

0: paratergites absent, with Mt8 and Mt9 or fused syntergum forming broad connection with outer plates of ovipositor

1. Cheiloneurus fulvescen... ↴

2.Asaphes

notes: Encyrtinae

coded examples: Cleonymus Latreille, 1809, Cales noacki Howard, 1907, Coccophagus rusti, Cirrospilus coachellae, Eurytoma gigantea (toggle remainder)

1: paratergites absent, but with syntergum separated from outer plates of ovipositor by membranous region

1.Savdargia hofferi

notes:

coded examples: Trechnites fuscitarsis, Euderomphale chelidonii Erdos, 1966, Coccophagoides moeris

2: paratergite present between syntergum and outer plate of ovipositor

1. Anagyrus pseudoco... ↴

notes: Tetracneminae

coded examples: Anagyrus pseudococci (Girault, 1915), Metaphycus luteolus, Acerophagus flavus Rose, Comperiella bifasciata Howard, 1906