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Article ZOOTAXA
ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition)
http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4083.3.2
http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CF7CC57B-E792-4D7D-9188-36B3625388AB

New genera, species and records of Doryctinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

from Brazil

SIAN DE SOUZA GADELHA¹, JULIANO FIORELINI NUNES² & MARCIO LUIZ DE OLIVEIRA³
¹Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia – INPA.
E-mail: siangadelha@gmail.com
²Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais – UEMG unidade de Passos; Mestrado Profissional em Desenvolvimento Regional e Meio
Ambiente. E-mail: fiorelini@gmail.com
³Coordenação de Biodiversidade e Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia –
INPA. E-mail: mlolivei@inpa.gov.br

Abstract

Two new genera of Doryctinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) are described, Parsteres n. gen., Tuberatra n. gen., and are
added to the identification key of Marsh (1997). Three new species are also described: P. pilosus n. sp., T. curvicauda n.
sp., and Barbalhoa longicaudus n. sp. An identification key to the species of Barbalhoa Marsh, 2002 is presented, and
nine species of the subfamily have their first record for Brazil.

Key words: Ichneumonoidea, cyclostome braconids, taxonomy, parasitoid wasps. Barbalhoa

Introduction

The Doryctinae subfamily consists mainly of parasitoid wasps, which in general are idiobiont ectoparasitoids of
wood-boring beetle larvae, although there are also parasitism records for lepidopteran larvae and sawfly larvae
with the same habits (Wharton et al. 1997), termites (Belokobylskij 2002), and in webspinners (Shaw & Edgerly
1985). The subfamily is recognized by the presence of a row of spines on the fore tibia, the separate insertion of
two secondary venom ducts into the primary duct, a heavily sclerotized ovipositor apex, a double nodus on the
upper valve and a modified serration on the lower valve of the ovipositor (Zaldívar-Riverón 2008).
Doryctinae is one of the most diverse subfamilies within Braconidae (Wharton 1997; Marsh 2002), with about
1300 species and 188 genera (YU et al. 2012; Nunes et al. 2012; Zaldívar-Riverón et al. 2013). Although the group
is widely distributed around the globe (Belokobylskij et al. 2004), its greatest diversity is concentrated in the New
World tropics (Hanson & Gauld 1995) and, according to Wharton et al. (1997), Marsh (2002) and Braet et al.
(2003) as more studies are conducted in these regions the number of genera and species tends to increase
considerably. In Brazil, 62 genera and 153 species are recognized according to TAXAPAD (YU et al. 2012).
However, these numbers are underestimated, both by the lack of studies with Braconidae in several regions (e.g.
Brazilian Amazon), and by the fact that most of the works on the diversity of Braconidae identify specimens only
to the genus level (Marchiori & Penteado-Dias 2002; Cirelli & Penteado-Dias 2003; Scatolini & Penteado-Dias
2003; Gadelha et al. 2012; Nunes et al. 2014). The lack of species identification on these papers makes the number
of known species to Brazil to remain underestimated.
This work is the result of a study of the Doryctinae specimens deposited in collections of the Brazilian Amazon
region, especially the Invertebrate Collection of the National Institute of Researches in Amazon (INPA) and Emílio
Goeldi Museum (MPEG). It aims to describe new genera and species of the subfamily, and also updating the record
of species to Brazil.

Accepted by J. Jennings: 14 Jan. 2016; published: 22 Feb. 2016 359