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Diagnosis
Propleura
meeting posteriorly and covering prosternum.
Funicle usually with 4
segments (rarely 3).
Face without transverse sulcus about midway between torulus and anterior
ocellus.
Postmarginal vein generally distinctly longer than stigmal vein (STV).
Submarginal
vein with 3 or more setae on dorsal surface.
Notauli variable: complete,
straight or nearly so, and reaching hind margin of mesoscutum; complete,
curved
to meet anterior margin of axilla; incomplete
or absent.
Scutellum with at least 2
pairs of setae; with
or without
paired longitudinal lines.
Male antenna often with funicular branches.
Superfamily : Chalcidoidea
Family : Eulophidae
Subfamily : Eulophinae
Classification
Overview
The Eulophini is one of 3 tribes currently recognized
in the subfamily Eulophinae (Eulophini,
Cirrospilini, Elasmini) (Gauthier
et al., 2000). It contains about 1000 species in 85 genera.
Most Eulophini are parasitoids of larval Lepidoptera; with the exception
being genera with leafmining parasitoids which attack hosts in other orders.
Species in most genera are ectoparasitic idiobionts of larvae concealed
in plant tissue; only a few are ectoparasitic koinobionts of exposed caterpillars.
Identification
There are no keys strictly to Eulophini; however keys to all Eulophinae genera are available for Australasia (Boucek 1988) and North America (Schauff et al., 1997). Gauthier et al. (2000) provided a list to all genera in this tribe.