Genus : Chrysocharis Förster, 1856

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Diagnosis

Fore wing with submarginal vein (SMV) with 2 setae dorsally.
Postmarginal vein (PMV) present and at least 1.5 times as long as stigmal vein length (STV).
Flagellum with 3 anelli, of which the 3rd is enlarged, triangular and usually with setae. Funicle with usually 3 funicular segments and club 2-segmented. Male scape with sensory area on scape on ventral margin.
Head without a sulcus surrounding ocellar triangle. Fronto-facial suture distinctly separated from anterior ocellus and usually V or Y-shaped, rarely transverse. Antennal scrobes joining below fronto-facial suture in female.
Mesosoma slightly to strongly sculptured. Pronotum with or without transverse carina. Notauli usually incomplete. Mesoscutum and scutellum without longitudinal grooves; scutellum with a single pair of setae. Propodeum smooth, shiny and usually without complete median carina, although sometimes it may be difficult to define whether in same cases the propodeal median carina is complete or not. Plica normally absent.
Petiole distinct, short or very long.
Coloration mainly green metallic, without yellow markings.

 

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Subfamily : Chalcidoidea
Family : Eulophidae
Subfamily : Entedoninae
Tribe : Entedonini

Classification

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Overview

Chrysocharis is a large genus containing about 130 species. It is cosmopolitan in distribution, although it is most common in the Holarctic region (Noyes, 2002; 2003). Species are primarily endoparasitoids of leafmining Lepidoptera, Diptera and Hymenoptera.
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Identification

Chrysocharis is included in recent generic keys to eulophids for Australasia (Boucek, 1988) and North America (Schauff et al, 1997), and it is included in a web-based key to all Eulophidae genera which attack leafmining Agromyzidae (Reina & La Salle, 2003). Recent keys to species are provided by for the Palearctic (Hansson, 1985), New World (Hansson, 1987), Nearctic (Hansson, 1995b) and Mexico (Hansson, 1997); Japan (Ikeda, 1996). Earlier keys to the North American species were provided by Yoshimoto (1973a; b).

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