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Key to northern European Eupelmidae
Hymenoptera
Chalcidoidea
Eupelmidae
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Forewings
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Forewings fully developed.
Forewings reduced or absent.
Mesonotum
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Mesonotum very broad, its front side corners protruding as shoulders behind the pronotum.
Mesonotum not as broad, narrowing towards the base of the pronotum so that the shoulders are indistinct.
Axillae
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Axillae large and broadly meeting in the centre.
Axillae smaller and separated by the scutellum.
Frons
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Frons with distinct depression in which the antennae are located.
Frons with no distinct depression.
Prepectus
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Prepectus small and triangular, smaller than tegula. Forewings with dark areas.
Prepectus larger, at least as long as tegula. Foreings with or without dark areas.
Linea calva
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Forewing with a linea calva.
Forewing without a linea calva.
Mesopleuron sculpture
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Anterior part of mesopleuron covered by often indistinct parallel groves, only sometimes with a net-like pattern in places.
Anterior part mesopleuron covered by a net like pattern.
Abdomen length
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Abdomen at least 2 times as long as thorax.
Abdomen much less than 2 times as long as thorax.
Likely taxa
Anastatus bifasciatus
Anastatus giraudi
Calosota acron
Calosota aestivalis
Calosota vernalis
Eupelmus
Eusandalum coronatum
Eusandalum elongatum
Merostenus excavatus
Info
References
Ferriere, C., & Kerrich, G. J. (1958).
Hymenoptera. Chalcoidea
. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol. 8, part 2(a). Royal Entomological Society.
Finlands Artdatacenter (2024). LAJI.FI: Chalcidoidea.
https://laji.fi/sv/taxon/MX.53733
[2024-04-26]
Gibson, G. A. P. (2010). Calosota Curtis (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eupelmidae) – review of the New World and European fauna including revision of species from the West Indies and Central and North America.
ZooKeys, 55
(55), 1–75. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.55.490
Peck, O., Bouček, Z., & Hoffer, A. (1964) Keys to the Chalcidoidea of Czechoslovakia (Insecta: Hymenoptera).
Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, volume 96
(S34), 7–121.
SLU Artdatabanken (2024). Artfakta: Chalcidoidea.
https://artfakta.se/taxa/2002985
[2024-04-26]
Tryapitsyn, V. A. (1988). Family Eupelmidae (Eupelmids). In Medvedev, G. S. (Ed.),
Keys to the Insects of the European Part of USSR, Vol. 3: Hymenoptera. Part 2.
(s. 411–427). Nauka Leningrad.
