A Taxonomic Study On The Subfamily Agathidinae(Hymenoptera:Braconidae) From China

The subfamily Agathidinae Nees,1814belongs to the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera, Apocrita), including46genera and1139species worldwide. The majority of Agathidinae are endoparastoids of larvae and pupae of Lepidopetra, many species of which are very important in natural control of agriculture and forest pests. The species of Agathidinae from China are revised in the present work. The dissertation comprises two parts, general part and taxonomic part.The general part is mainly about taxonomic history, morphology, biology and biogeography of Agathidinae while the taxonomic part deals with about21genera and121species in China based on the specimens from some of museums at home and abroad, of which32species previously known from China are listed but no specimens were available for this study. In addition,16species are listed as misidentified or questionable species.New status:Facilagathis van Achterberg et Chen,2004, stat. nov.; Laccagathis Watanabe,1937, stat. nov.; Rhamphagathis Tobias,1962, stat. nov.; Facilagathis macrocentroides van Achterberg et Chen,2004, stat. nov.; Facilagathis spinulata van Achterberg et Chen,2004, stat. nov.; Laccagathis formosana Watanabe,1934, stat. nov.; Rhamphagathis nasicornis (Telenga,1955), stat. nov.Genera new to China:Gyragathis van Achterberg et Long,2010; Rhamphagathis Tobias,1962, stat. nov.; Troticus Brulle,1846.New species:Bassus guangxiensis Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Bassus levisulcus Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Bassus robustus Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Biroia baishanzuensis Tang, Liu et Chen,2012; Biroia hirsutus Tang, Liu et Chen,2012; Braunsia guangdongensis Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Braunsia shenyangensis Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Earinus longigena Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Earinus pallenstarsus Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Earinus protinus Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Lytopylus brevicaudis Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Lytopylus convexus Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Therophilus fani Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Therophilus hailinensis Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Therophilus longicaudus Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Therophilus longiturgum Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Therophilus longivena Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Therophilus magnus Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Therophilus parvicella Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Therophilus pictifemur Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Therophilus subfestivus Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Therophilus taiguensis Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Therophilus yangi Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Therophilus yunnanensis Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Troticus danzhouensis Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Zelodia henanensis Tang et Chen, sp. nov.; Zelodia liui Tang et Chen, sp. nov.New species records:Agathisfuscipennis (Zetterstedt,1838); Agathis pappei Nixon,1986; Agathis taurica Telenga,1955; Agathis varipes Thomson,1895; Bassus albozonatus van Achterberg et Long,2010; Braunsia fumipennis (Cameron,1899); Braunsia pilosa Belokobylskij,1986; Braunsia postfurcalis Watanabe,1937; Disophrys rhinoides van Achterberg et Long,2010; Earinus aurantius van Achterberg et Long,2010; Earinus brevistigmus van Achterberg et Long,2010; Earinus elator (Fabricius,1804); Gyragathis quyi van Achterberg et Long,2010; Lytopylus rufipes (Nees,1812); Rhamphagathis nasicornis (Telenga,1955), stat. nov.; Therophilus levisoma van Achterberg et Long,2010; Therophilus peniculus (Sharkey,1996), comb, nov.; Zelodia anginota van Achterberg et Long,2010.New synonyms:Biroia bicolor Wang,1984with Biroia taeniocauda (Enderlein,1920); Cremnops flavistigmus Chen et Yang,2006, Cremnops hongpingensis Chen et Yang,2006, Cremnops tobiasi Chen et Yang,2006and Cremnops wui Chen et Yang,2006with Cremnops desertor (Linnaeus,1785); Disophrys chinensis Fahringer,1937, Disophrys sogdiana Fahringer,1937and Euagathis sentosa Chen et Yang,1995with Euagathis chinensis (Holmgren,1868); Lytopylus ebulus (Nixon,1950) with Lytopylus romani (Shestakov,1940);New combinations:Therophilus belokobylskiji (Sharkey,1998), comb. nov.; Therophilus cancellatus (Enderlein,1918), comb, nov.; Therophilus depressus (Chou et Sharkey,1989), comb. nov.; Therophilus dimidiator (Nees,1834), comb. nov.; Therophilusfabiae (Nixon,1941), comb. nov.; Therophilus festivoides (Sharkey,1996), comb. nov.; Therophilus formosanus (Watanabe,1934), comb, nov.; Therophilus glycinivorellae (Watanabe,1938), comb. nov.; Therophilus helvenacus (Chou et Sharkey,1989), comb, nov.; Therophilus laevis (Chou et Sharkey,1989), comb, nov.; Therophilus lini (Chou et Sharkey,1989), comb, nov.; Therophilus parallelus (Chou et Sharkey,1989), comb, nov.; Therophilus peniculus (Sharkey,1996), comb. nov.; Therophilus tobiasi (Sharkey,1998), comb. nov.; Therophilus tanycoleosus (Chen et Yang,2006), comb. nov.; Therophilus transcaperatus (Yang et Chen,2006), comb. nov.; Therophilus transversus (Chou et Sharkey,1989), comb. nov.; Therophilus triangulus (Chou et Sharkey,1989), comb. nov.; Therophilus tsuifengensis (Chou et Sharkey,1989), comb. nov.; Therophilus wufengensis (Chou et Sharkey,1989), comb. nov.