Author, year, journal with original description

Schauff, M.E, 1986, Proceedings of the Entomological Society in Washington, 88:167-170

Type species

Microdonophagus woodleyi Schauff (holotype female in the United States National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C)

Synonym names

None

Diagnosis

Female: submarginal vein with 2-3 dorsal setae; anteroventral prosternum expanded and flangelike; lower mesepimeron enlarged and meeting between mid- and hindcoxae. Male: brachypterous (i.e. with short wings)

Number of species

Two

Distribution

Neotropical region: Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama

Biology

Gregarious endoparasitoid of larvae of Microdon sp. (Diptera: Syrphidae) living in nests of Tapinoma fulvum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Literature

Schauff, M.E. 1986. Microdonophagus, a new Entedonine genus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from Panama. Proceedings of the Entomological Society in Washington, 88:167-170

Hansson, C. 2002. Eulophidae of Costa Rica, 1. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 67:1-290 (Microdonophagus is treated on pp. 81-82)

Hansson, C. 2009. The genus Microdonophagus Schauff (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), with description of a new species. ZooTaxa, 2200:54-60