Character Details

Character

Position of cercus [124]

Description

Relative position of the cerci affect the shape of the preceding tergites. Female Eupelminae were coded as slightly advanced it is the penultimate tergum (Mt7) has a distinct curvature on its posterior margin that partly surrounds the cercus (cf. figs 298, 300 in Gibson, 1989). State 2 is a condition of Encyrtidae and some Aphelinidae (state 2).

States

-: inapplicable (cerci absent)
notes:
coded examples: Philomides Haliday, 1862, amber_UCRC_ENT305755, Centrodora_brevispinae_UCRC_ENT_00237973, UCRC_ENT_00237976, UCRC_ENT_305754 (toggle remainder)
0: not conspicuously advanced, terga transverse
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1.Asaphes
 
notes:
coded examples: Cleonymus Latreille, 1809, Cales noacki Howard, 1907, Coccophagus rusti, Cirrospilus coachellae, Eurytoma gigantea (toggle remainder)
1: slightly advanced, Mt7 forming a flap-like structure between cercal bases
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1.Coccobius fulvus
 
notes:
coded examples: Coccobius fulvus, Eupelmus urozonus Dalman, 1820, Anastatus floridanus Roth & Willis, 1954, Brasema allynii (French, 1882), Arachnophaga eucnemia Gibson, 1995 (toggle remainder)
2: conspicuously advanced anteriorly, with some terga V-like between, or M-like between and around, the cerci
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1. Cheiloneurus flaccus metasoma, do...
 
notes: Encyrtidae
coded examples: Cheiloneurus flaccus, Savzdargia hofferi (Pilipyuk, 1974), Anagyrus pseudococci (Girault, 1915), Cheiloneurus_fulvescens, Trechnites fuscitarsis (toggle remainder)