Genus Apanteles Foerster, 1862

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• Apanteles Foerster, A. 1862. Synopsis der familien und gattungen der Braconen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 19: 226-288 [245].

  Type species:

   Microgaster obscurus Nees von Esenbeck, 1834 by original designation.
• Urogaster Ashmead, W.H. 1898. Descriptions of new parasitic Hymenoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 4: 155-171 [166].

  Type species:

   Urogaster vulgaris Ashmead, 1898 by subsequent designation.
• Xestapanteles Cameron, P. 1910. On some African species of the subfamilies Exothecinae, Aphrastobraconinae, Cheloninae, Doryctinae, Cardiochilinae and Microgasterinae in the Royal Berlin Zoological Museum. Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften 81: 433-450 [447].

  Type species:

   Xestapanteles latiannulatus Cameron, 1910 by monotypy.
• Allapanteles Brèthes, J. 1916. Hyménoptères parasites de l'Amérique méridionale. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 27: 401-430 [404].

  Type species:

   Allapanteles cecidiptae Brèthes, 1916 by monotypy.
• Iconella Mason, W.R.M. 1981. The phylogenetic nature of Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): a phylogeny and reclassification of Microgastrinae. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 115: 1-147 [74].

  Type species:

   Apanteles etiellae Viereck, 1911 by original designation.
• Illidops Mason, W.R.M. 1981. The phylogenetic nature of Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): a phylogeny and reclassification of Microgastrinae. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 115: 1-147.

  Type species:

   Apanteles butalidis Marshall, 1889 by original designation.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

BRACONIDAE: Apanteles guyanensis (Cameron, 1911) — Austin, A.D. & Dangerfield, P.C. 1992. Synopsis of Australasian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), with a key to genera and description of new taxa. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 1-76 [33]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Central Mackay Coast (CMC) ; ACT, NSW, Qld: Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), New England Tablelands (NET) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, WA: Pilbara (PIL) ; NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Pine Creek (PCK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, WA: Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD) ; NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Stony Plains (STP) ; NT, Qld, WA: Gulf Plains (GUP) ; Qld, SA, WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS) ; Qld, WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Northern Kimberley (NK) ; SA, Tas, WA: Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR) ; SA, WA: Great Victoria Desert (GVD)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Slater-Baker, M-R., Fagan-Jeffries, E.P., Oestmann, K.J., Portmann, O.G., Bament, T.M., Howe, A.G., Guzik, M.T., Bradford, T.M., McClelland, A.R., Woodward, A., Clarke, S., Ducker, N. & Fernández-Triana, J. 2025. DNA barcoding, integrative taxonomy, citizen science, and Bush Blitz surveys combine to reveal 34 new species of Apanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) in Australia. ZooKeys 1227: 1-128 [30]

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