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Neuroscelionidae Johnson & Austin

Neuroscelionidae wasps of the World

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Platygastroidea)

Neuroscelionidae Johnson & Austin, 2021:1104 (original description; diagnosis; figured).
Type genus. Neuroscelio Dodd, 1913.

ClassificationIdentification keys

 

Brachyscelio Brues, 1940

 

Cenomanoscelio Schlüter, 1978

Neuroscelio Dodd, 1913

Distribution

Australia, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia (Sarawak).

Biology

Unknown.

Comments

The classification presented here follows Chen et al. 2021. Finally a comprehensive phylogenetic assessment based on both morphological and molecular data to formulate a revised classification of Platygastroidea has been completed. Murphy et al. (2007) conducted a molecular phylogenetic analysis of the entire Platygastroidea in which the Platygastridae was supported as a monophyletic group nested within Scelionidae. As a result the Scelionidae were retrieved as polyphyletic, but the classification was not revised because of low support for many of the deeper nodes in the cladogram, and inadequate taxon sampling (less than a quarter of the valid genera in the superfamily were included in their analyses). Based on the results of Murphy et al. (2007), Sharkey (2007) formally synonymised Scelionidae with Platygastridae. Subsequently McKellar & Engel (2012) raised the tribes Sparasionini and Nixonini to family level and recognized four families: Nixoniidae, Sparasionidae, Scelionidae and Platygastridae, but in Ortega-Blanca et al. (2014) they treated placement of these two tribes within the Platygastroidea as incertae sedis recognizing only two families: Scelionidae and Platygastridae. These higher classification changes made by Sharkey (2007) and McKellar & Engel (2012) were largely not accepted (Talamas & Buffington, 2015; Popovici et al. 2017). With a revised classification having recently been published supported by robust phylogenetic data (Chen et al. 2021) this latest classification schema is now followed.

References

Chen H-Y, Lahey Z, Talamas EJ, Valerio AA,  Popovici OA, Musetti L, Klompen H, Polaszek A, Masner L, Austin AD, Johnson NF. 2021. An integrated phylogenetic reassessment of the parasitoid superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha) results in a revised familial classification. Systematic Entomology 46(4): 1088-1113.

https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12511

Dodd, A.P. 1913. Some new parasitic Hymenoptera from Australia. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 79: 164–182.
Galloway, I.D., Austin, A.D. & Masner, L. 1992. Revision of the genus Neuroscelio Dodd, primitive scelionids (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) from Australia, with a discussion of the ovipositor system of the tribe Gryonini. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 523–545.

Valerio AA, Masner L, Austin, AD, & Johnson, NF. 2009. The genus Neuroscelio Dodd (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae s. l.) reviewed: new species, distributional update, and discussion of relationships Zootaxa 2306: 29–43.

Credits

Photographs © Alejandro Valerio.


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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