Revisión de la clasificación de braconidae (1900-2012): Subfamilias en México

Abstract

RESUMENLos bracónidos son avispas parasitoides que se han utilizado con éxito en muchos programas de control biológico de insectos plaga a nivel mundial. En la presente revisión, se analiza la clasificación de las subfamilias de Braconidae, cuyo cambio ha sido notable durante las últimas dos décadas, también se registran los géneros que cambiaron de subfamilia en ese período. En México se registran actualmente 35 subfamilias (28 en el Museo de la UAT), 318 géneros y 704 especies. Sin embargo, aún existe gran cantidad de especímenes sin identificar en las colecciones de diversas universidades. PALABRAS CLAVE:Hymenoptera, Ichneunnonoidea, avispas parasitoides. ABSTRACTBraconids are parasitoid wasps used successfully in many biological control programs of insect pests at world level. In this review, the classification of the subfamilies of Braconidae is analyzed because during the last two decades have been noticeable changes, also the genera that change subfamily in this period are recorded. In Mexico, 35 subfamilies are registered (28 in UAT Museum), 318 genera and 704 species. However, there is a great quantity of specimens without identifications in the collections of different universities.

A new species of Pseudophanerotoma (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from Nayarit, Mexico

“…Members of the subfamily Cheloninae have been used in the biocontrol of exotic pests ( Narendran 2001 ). In Mexico, 704 species of Braconidae have been listed from 34 subfamilies ( Coronado-Blanco et al 2012 ), of which, only 17 species of Cheloninae have been identified ( Coronado-Blanco and Zaldívar-Riverón 2014 ). However, most of these species belong to the genus Chelonus Panzer, 1806 ( Coronado-Blanco et al 2004 ), which is well known to control the populations of the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E.…”