Author, year, journal with original description

Girault. A.A. (1913). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 2:77-78.

Type species

Apleurotropis viridis Girault, by original designation.

Synonym names

Apleurotropopseus Girault, 1913: 146. Type species: Apleurotropopseus albipes Girault, by original designation. Synonymized by Boucek, 1988: 711.

Epentedon Girault, 1915: 186. Type species: Epentedon unnotipennis Girault, by original designation. Synonymized by Boucek, 1988: 711.

Horismenella Girault, 1915:189. Type species: Horismenella clariviridis Girault, by original designation. Synonymized by Boucek, 1988: 711.

Pleurotropomyia Girault, 1913: 145. Type species: Pleurotropomyia grotiusi Girault, by original designation. Synonymized by Boucek, 1988: 711.

Propleurotropis Girault, 1937:1–2. Type species: Propleurotropis minii Girault, by original designation. Synonymized by Boucek, 1988: 711.

Diagnosis

Eyes with dense long hairs; vertex with a pit or a short groove in front of anterior ocellus; frons just above frontal suture raised to form a carina, V-shaped, straight or slightly down-curved laterally; pronotum with a transverse carina close to posterior margin, laterally also with a complete longitudinal carina; mesoscutum usually with a median groove in posterior 1/3–1/2; mesoscutum and scutellum with engraved and strong reticulation; postmarginal vein long, 2.4–3.7X as long as stigmal vein; propodeum with complete and more or less parallel plicae and with a complete median carina.

Number of species

27.

Distribution

Australia, India, Japan, Madagascar, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania. Tropical America: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru.

Biology

Primary parasitoids on leaf-mining larvae of sawflies (Hymenoptera), Agromyzidae (Diptera), Hispinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), and various Lepidoptera groups (Boucek 1988). Hosts for the species described here are mainly from leaf-mining Lepidoptera, with one record from a leaf-mining Diptera and one from an unidentified gall: Bucculatrix sp. (Lepidoptera: Bucculatricidae) on Forsteronia spicata (Apocyanaceae); Elachista sp. (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae) on Olyra latifolia (Poaceae); Marmara sp. (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) on Heliconia sp. (Heliconiaceae); Phyllocnistis sp. (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) on Trichilia havanensis (Meliaceae); Tischeria spp. (Lepidoptera: Tischeriidae) on Coussapoa villosa (Moraceae) and Gouania polygama (Rhamnaceae); unidentified Elachistidae (Lepidoptera) mining leaves of Bambusa (=Guadua) angustifolia (Poaceae); unidentified lepidopteran leafminers on Saurauia sp. (Actinidiaceae), Trichilia havanensis, Peperomia peltata (Piperaceae), unidentified Asteraceae, Heliconiaceae and Melastomataceae; Agromyzidae indet. (Diptera) on Tradescantia sp. (Commelinaceae); from a leaf pustule gall on Ficus hartwegii (Moraceae).

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