First record from Costa Rica of the genus Caenophanes Foerster and description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae)

Abstract

The genus Caenophanes Foerster is distinguished from the genus Heterospilus Haliday and one new species is described from Costa Rica which is the first species of Caenophanes described from the Western Hemisphere.

Two new species of the genera Caenophanes Foerster, 1862 and Neurocrassus Šnoflak, 1945 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the Afrotropical Region

“…Type species Bracon incompletus Ratzeburg, 1844. The genus Caenophanes Foerster, 1862 is a small taxon with about 20 described species from the Palaearctic [Belokobylskij, Maetô, 2006, 2009Belokobylskij et al, 2011], Oriental [Belokobylskij, 1993], Australasian [Belokobylskij et al, 2004;Belokobylskij, 2010], Nearctic [Haimowitz et al, 2014] and Neotropical [Marsh, 2014] regions. This genus was also recorded from the Afrotropical Region [Zaldívar-Riverón et al, 2008], but without species determination.…”

The ectoparasitoid wasp Heterospilus sicanus (Marshall, 1888) (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae) as a natural enemy of Gastrallus pubens Fairmaire, 1875 (Coleoptera, Ptinidae) in Italy

“…Additionally, they also parasitise Lepidoptera species of the families Cosmopterigidae , Gelechiidae , Prodoxidae and Pyralidae , and even stem-boring Hymenoptera of the family Cephidae . In addition, a few species have been reared from nests of Crabronidae ( Hymenoptera ) ( Marsh 1982 ; Shaw 1995 ; Marsh and Melo 1999 ; Cabrera et al 2002 ).…”

First record of the genus Caenophanes Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Doryctinae) for America north of Mexico with a description of a new species from Wyoming USA

“…The genus Caenophanes is seldom identified in collections because it has long been considered a junior synonym to the genus Heterospilus Haliday (Ashmead 1900;Shenefelt and Marsh 1976), and was not recognized as a valid genus until 1992 (Belokobylskij 1992a(Belokobylskij , 1992b. Since that time, only 16 species have been described (Austin, Quicke and Marsh 1994;Belokobylskij 1992a;Belokobylskij and Maeto 2006;Belokobylskij, Falco-Gari and Jimenez-Peydro 2011;Marsh 2014). Most, if not all, of the described species of Caenophanes were either previously described as Heterospilus and later transferred to Caenophanes, or found in existing collections as unidentified specimens of Heterospilus.…”