Revision of Acroclisoides Girault & Dodd, 1915 (Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Metasteninae)

Abstract

The species of Acroclisoides Girault & Dodd (Pteromalidae: Metasteninae) are revised. Twenty-three world species are recognized based on females, of which eight new species are described: Acroclisoides bimaculatus Tselikh, sp. nov. (Australia), A. fusus Tselikh & Mitroiu, sp. nov. (Africa), A. marimbae Tselikh & Mitroiu, sp. nov. (Africa), A. miklukhai Tselikh, sp. nov. (Papua New Guinea), A. nongae Tselikh, Lee & Ku, sp. nov. (Eastern Palearctic), A. simbis Tselikh & Mitroiu, sp. nov. (Africa), A. supramaculatus Tselikh, sp. nov. (Australia) and A. suryai Tselikh, sp. nov. (India). The genus Golovissima Dzhanokmen, 1982, syn. nov., is synonymized under Acroclisoides Girault & Dodd, 1915; the species Euneura borocerae Risbec, 1957, previously included in Acroclisoides by Bou & ccaron;ek (1976), is transferred to Agiommatus Crawford, 1911, as A. borocerae (Risbec, 1957), comb. nov. The hitherto unknown male of A. major Girault & Dodd, 1915 is described for the first time. The following new records are reported: A. laticeps Girault & Dodd, 1915 from Papua New Guinea; A. luzonensis Gahan, 1920 from Indonesia, Malaysia and Republic of Korea; A. sinicus (Huang & Liao, 1988) from Japan and Vietnam; A. solus Grissell & Smith, 2006 from Japan and Russia. All the species are described or redescribed and illustrated by macrophotography, including type material of previously described species, and a key for the identification of the twenty-three known species is given.