J.HYM.RES. Vol.6(2),1997,pp.297-335 Generic RelationshipsWithin the Tribes Cratocentrini and Phasgonophorini (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) G.A.W.WlJESEKARA MarylandCenterforSystematicEntomology,DepartmentofEntomology,Universityof Maryland,CollegePark,Maryland,20740[Currentaddress.DepartmentofEntomology,P.O. Box11,HorticulttiralResearchandDevelopmentInstitute,Peradeniya,SriLanka] — Abstract. According tomost recentclassification, thesubfamilyChalcidinaeisdivided into fourtribes:Brachymeriini,Chalcidini,Cratocentrini,andPhasgonophorini.Ithasbeensuggested thatthetribesPhasgonophoriniandCratocentriniaresistergroupsandtogethertheyformthe sistergrouptoamonophyleticgroupconsistingofBrachymeriiniandChalcidini.Acladisticstudy wasconductedtotesttherelationshipbetweenCratocentriniandPhasgonophoriniandtoestab- lishthegenericrelationships,usingallknowntaxaineachtribe.Brnchi/meria,Chalcis,andDirhinus wereusedasoutgroups.ParsimonyanalysisusingthebranchandboundsearchoptionofPAUP (Ver. 3.1.1), resulted in 14minimum lengthtrees. Noneofthe treescouldberooted tomake CratocentriniandPhasgonophorinisistergroups.Reanalysisofdataaftersuccessiveweightingof charactersresultedinasinglemostparsimonioustreethatisidenticaltooneoftheoriginal14 trees.Thistreewasselectedasthepreferredhypothesis.Theseresultscorroboratetherelation- shipsfortribesinChalcidinaesuggestedfrommypreviousanalysisofchalcididphylogeny.In additionthisstudyestablishedthegenericrelationshipswithinCratocentriniandPhasgonophorini forthefirsttime.TheresultssuggestthatMegachakisandTrigoniirellaarethebasallineagesof tribestheCratocentriniandPhasgonophorini,respectively.Becausethesetwogenerawerenot usedtorepresentthetribesinmypreviouscladisticticanalysis,theeffectoftaxonsamplingon my chalcidid phylogeny was tested byincludingthesetwotaxa intheanalysis.Thisanalysis showednoeffectoftaxonsamplingonpreviousphylogeneticanalysis.Sincethisanalysisuseda separatesetofcharactersthanthefamilylevelphylogenyanalysis,thetwodatasetswerecom- binedandresultingdatamatrixof41taxaand65characterswasanalyzed.Thisanalysisresulted in 14minimumlengthtreesandsuccessiveweightinggave10minimumlengthtreesonestep longer than any ofthe 14 minimum length trees from equally weighted data. There issome disagreementbetweenthephylogenetichypothesisresultingfromthisanalysisforChalcididae andresultsofmypreviousanalysisoffamilyphylogeny.Thisillustratestheeffectofbiasedtaxon andcharactersamplingontheresultsofphylogeneticanalysis. Cratocentrini and Phasgonophorini which isextenciedbeyond theshortsyn- (Hymenoptera:Chalcididae)aretwomor- tergum(Fig.56).Althoughthemajorityof phologically distinct groups within the Phasgonophorinialsohavealongovipos- subfamily Chalcidinae. Host records itor, thesyntergumhasextendedconceal- (available only for few species) indicate ingtheelongatedovipositorsheaths(Figs, thatthespeciesofbothtribesareparasites 55, 57). Both groups were extensively ofwoodboringbeetlelarvae,anunusual studied by Steffan (1950a, 1950b, 1956, host asssociation in Chalcididae (Boucek 1959,and1973).Atpresenteachtribecon- 1988). Theyareamongthelargestchalci- sistsofeightgenera,alldistributedinthe dids,varyingfrom4to20mm.inlength, tropicalareasoftheworld. Cratocentrini are distinctive among chal- Steffan (1959)suggested thatCratocen- cidids in having an elongated ovipositor trini and Phasgonophorini evolved from 298 JournalofHymenopteraResearch the same "stem". He hypothesized that with abdominal tergite I reduced and their specialized abdomens were conver- shorterthantergiteII (Megahcolus,Paras- gently evolved as a result of ovipositing typiura, Stypiura,andStenochalcis).Steffan intosimilartypesofhosts. Boucek(1988) (1956)impliedthathistribeswerenatural stated that these tw^o tribes were sister groupsandgavemanysynonymsforspe- groupsandformedasistercladetoChal- cies of Phasgonophora and Cratocentrus. cidini+Brachymeriinibuthedidnotpro- Steffan(1973)alsorevisedthegeneraStyp- videanycharacterevidence. iura (six species) and Parastypiura (three Mypreviousstudyofhigherlevelphy- species) of the Neotropical region. Since logeny of Chalcididae (Wijesekara 1997) Steffan's work, two more genera have indicatedthatCratocentriniandPhasgon- beenaddedtothetribe:KopinataandTri- ophoriniarenotcloselyrelated.Phasgon- gonurella (Boucek 1988). AtpresentPhas- ophoriniisthesistergrouptoBrachimer- gonophorini consistsofeightgeneraand iini,andthesetwotribesplusHaltichelli- 57species. nae,Dirhininae,andEpitraninaeformthe sister group to Cratocentrini (Fig. 74). Cratocentrini However my study of family phylogeny The genera Larradomorpha Stadelmann usedonlytwoexamplarsofCratocentrini 1792, Marres Walker 1841, and Acantho- and Phasgonophorini. Both tribes consist chalcis Cameron 1884 were originally of eight genera, and it therefore seemed placed in Leucospidae, and Cratocentrus that a study of generic relationships Cameron 1907 was originally placed in amongallknowngeneraofCratocentrini Haltichellinae. Masi (1944) subsequently andPhasgonophoriniwouldbeusefulnot referred these genera to Brachymeriinae. only to establish generic relationships Later,Cratocentriniwasestablishedtoin- within the tribesbut also to testthe op- cludethesegeneraplusMacrochalcisMasi posinghypothesesregardingtherelation- 1945 (=AUocentrus Cameron 1911); and shipbetweenthesetwotribes. MegachalcisCameron1903(Steffan1950b). TAXONOMICHISTORY TwhheotardidbeedwafsourrenveiwsedgenbeyraS,teSfpfaatnoce(n1t9r5u9s),, Many taxa included in Cratocentrini Philocentrus,Acrocentrus,andVespomorpha. and Phasgonophorini were described in Narendran (1984) synonymized Allocen- thenineteenthcenturyandclassifiedwith- trus with Megachalcis, and Boucek (1992) indifferenttaxonomicgroups.Masi(1944) synonymized Larradomorpha with Marres. placedthemallwithinthesubfamilyBra- Atpresentthetribeconsistsofeightgen- chymeriinae.Bothtribeswereestablished eraand23species. bySteffan(1950a, 1950b). MATERIALANDMETHODS — Phasgonophorini Specimens. Thisstudywascarriedout Steffan(1950b)establishedthePhasgon- using the collection at the United States ophorini to include Phasgonophora West- National Museum of Natural History, wood1832,TrigoiiuraSichel1865,Sti/piurci Washington D. C. Additional specimens Kirby 1883, Megalocolus Kirby 1883, and were borrowed from the following insti- Stenochalcis Masi 1929. He also described tutions: The Natural History Museum, a new genus, ParastypiurnwithinBrachy- London;UniversityofCalicv:t, Kerala,In- meriinae.Hesuggestedthatthetribecon- dia;South AfricanMuseum, CapeTown, sisted oftwogroupsofgenera: thePhas- SouthAfrica;PlantProtectionResearchIn- gonophoragroup,withabdominaltergite1 stitute, Pretoria, South Africa; and Muse- larger than the tergite II (Phasgonophora um NationaldeHistoireNaturelle, Paris, and Trigonura), and the Stypiura group. France. Volume6,Number2,1997 299 — Taxa Used mid Character Selection. All (reversals)ofcharactersoverparallelevo- valid genera of Cratocentrini and Phas- lution of characters (convergence), was gonophorini were included in this study usedtooptimizethecharacterstates.Six- (Appendix1).Inaddition,representatives teeningrouptaxaandthreeoutgrouptaxa ofothermajorcladesofChalcididaeiden- werecodedfor40characters.Thecharac- tifiedinmyearlierfamilylevelstudy(Wi- ter optimization was studied using jesekara 1997) were also included. These MacClade version 3.0 (Maddison and taxaservedasoutgroupsforassessingre- Maddison1992). — alantdioPnhsahsipgsonwoipthhoirnintih.etArirbeesprCersaetnotcaetnitvreinoif meSatsaubirleistyofAntarleyesisst.abilTihtyerfeoraprheylodigfefneerteinct BrachymeriiniwasincludedbecauseCra- hypotheses. These include the branch tocentrini + Phasgonophorini have been lengths (Bremer 1994), Bremer support included in Brachymeriinae and Brachy- (decayindex),andbootstrapvalues.Boot- meriinigroupedwithPhasgonophoriniin strapping (Felsenstein 1985) and Bremer my previousanalysis.Sincemyprevious support(Farrisetal.1994)provideabetter analysis of family phylogeny indicated measure oftree stability than thebranch that Brachymeriini plusPhasgonophorini length(Bremer1994). formthesistergrouptoacladeconsisting Thedegreeofcharactersupportforvar- ofHaltichellinae, DirhininaeandEpitran- ious nodes of the phylogenetic tree was inae, I also included Dirhimis as an out- evaluated using bootstrap analysis (Fel- group to represent this sister clade. The senstein 1985) and rescaled branch sup- tree wasrooted by including a represen- port (decay) index (Bremer 1988, 1994). tative of Chalcidini (Chalcis), which the AutoDecay version 3.0 (Eriksson 1995) previousanalysissuggestedtobethemost wasusedtocalculatethedecayindices.— basallineageinthefamily. Abbreviations Used in Figures 1-65. Comparative morphology was studied DAS:dorsalaxillarysurface,FRD:foram- for as many species as possible for each inal depression, FRN: frenum, HC: hind genus(SeelistofCratocentriniandPhas- coxa,HF:hindfemur,HS:horizontallydi- gonophorinispeciesstudied.Appendix1). rectedspur,HT:hindtibia,HTS:hindtib- Characters that varied among thegenera ial spur, LBR: labrum, LS: lateral sulcus, wereselected fortheanalysis.Characters LM: lamella, MAN: mandible, MEP: me- thatprovedtobesynapomorphiesforthe sosternal process, MES: mesepisternum, relevanttribesinmypreviousstudywere MNS: mesonotal spiracle, MS: malar also included. The generic autapomor- sulcus, MV: marginal vein, OCE: ocellus, phieswerenotinclud—edintheanalysis. OS: outerspur, PET: petiole, PMV: post- Character Analysis. Cladistic analysis marginalvein,PRE:prepectus,PRM:pos- wasperformedusing"PhylogeneticAnal- terior pronotal margin, PRN: pronotum, ysis Using Parsimony" (PAUP), version PRO: propodeum, SCA: supraclypeal 3.1.1 (Swofford 1993). The branch and area,SCR:scrobe,SMV:submarginalvein, bound search option, which guarantees STV: stigmal vein, TD: tarsal depression, finding all shortest possible trees, was TEG: tegula, TOR: torulus, TR: trocanter, used. All the multistate characters were TV: tergiteV, TVIl: tergiteVII, VER:ver- treated asunordered (non-additive;Fitch tex. 1971). Although there are many criteria thatcanbeusedtoordercharactersIpre- RESULTSANDDISCUSSION fernottoassumetheorderingofthestates CharactersSelected in multistate characters prior to cladistic analysis (Wijesekara 1997). ACCTRAN Forty morphological characters were optimization,whichfavorssecondaryloss scoredforatotalof19taxa(Table1).Eight 300 JournalofHymenopteraResearch Table1. DatamatrixforPhasgonophoriniandCratocentrini. Characters 1 1111111112 2222222223 3333333334 1234567890 1234567890 1234567890 1234567890 Chalcis 0011011000 0000000000 0001000100 2000010000 Brachymeria 0021013000 0000102000 0010102001 0010010000 Dirhinus 0001110000 0101101000 1010110100 0000010000 Acanthochalcis 1221112001 1101010001 2101020112 1110002020 Megachakis 1221112000 1121010101 2100020112 1110012000 Cratocentrus 1221112020 1102010011 2111020112 1110002020 Marres 1221112000 1102010110 2101010112 1110002030 Vesponwrpha 1221112000 1102010010 2101010112 1110002040 Spatocentrus 1221112001 1102010110 2111010112 1110012010 Philocentrus 1221112001 1102010010 2111020112 11100??0?0 Acrocentrus 1221112020 1102010011 2111010112 1110012010 Phasgonophora 2000000011 1111102010 3200100000 OHIO11000 Trigoiiura 2000000001 1111102010 3200100000 OHIO11000 TrigoinireUa 2100013000 1101102000 3210100000 0010010000 Stypiura 20100OHIO 1102102010 3200101000 0020111101 Megalocolus 20000OHIO 1101102010 3200101000 0010211101 Stenochttlcis 2100011110 1101102000 3200101000 0020213100 Kopinnta 2100001100 1101102010 3200101000 0010111001 Parnfti/piiirn 2000001111 1101102010 3200101000 0011011001 ofthecharacterswerealsousedinthepre- 2. Supraclypealarea. viousanalysisoffamilyphylogeny.Those 0. Without a modified bridge with charactersareindicatedbyanasterisk(*) same sculpture as rest of the face followingthecharacternumber.Thechar- (Fig.3). actersaredescribedbelow and measures 1. Modifiedtoformabridge,i.e.,with offitforeachcharacteraregivenintable differentsculpturethan restofthe 2. face(Fig.4). CharacteristicsoftheHead: 2. Tgoirnuloifltohceatceldypaetustheanadntetrhieorsumparra-- 1. S0.izLeaorfget,heaslbarboraumd.asbaseofmandible In Phlayspegaolnoaprheoariisnriedthueceadnt(eFnign.al2).toruli 1. (HFailgf. 1a)s. long as base of mandible Tarheelaorceaatebdeatwwaeeynftrhoemctlhyepecallypmeaalrgmianrgainnd. 2. (LFeisgs.2t)h.anhalfasbroad asbase of antennal toruli is sometimes modified conBdoitthimoantnroidfbieabsnleheax(vpFeiogs.teh3d)e.antydpiccoanlticghuaolucsidliad- tfmoworesmetinsnpgtehcaeiberssictdrhgoeberaeolfisbdaiafsfeselriaegnnhttdsicncudlliypcptaeuturiseo.nbeIo-nf brum.Phasgonophorinihasasmalllabrum this bridge-like structure, but the area is ewrhelraebarsumC,rationcteenrtmreidniiahtaesianresliazteivbeelytwlearegn- mthoerefacoerhlaesvsincgonstainmueoussculwpittuhret.heInressotmoef Brachymeriini and Phasgonophorini. Al- other groups this is distinctly differenti- though the structure of the labrum has ated. Cratocentrini differs in having the been used previously forphylogeneticin- toruli located at the clypeal margin and ferencewithinChalcidoidea(Darling1988), hence having very reduced supraclypeal thesizeofthelabrumhasnot. area. Volume6,Number2,1997 301 3. Malarregion. funiclesegmentslenderandlongandthe 201... WAAitscahurloicunutasapprrseeussleecnnutts((oFFriiggc..a6r5))i..na(Fig.3). Sogtrteohsuestrivsaeenlgdymeswhnoitrdstednaiinsnttigenncnttaloywasarhreodrcsthearrtahacetnedraippsertxoi.-c Inmostchalcididsthemalarregionhas ofmost Cratocentrini, Brachymeriini and adistinctsulcusrunningfromtheventral Dirhininae. marginoftheeyetobaseofthemandible. ThesulcusisabsentfrommostPhasgon- 7. Antennalscrobe. ophorini, present as a sulcus in Styphira 0. Morethan2xaslongasbroadnear and Chalcis, and indicated as a carina in toruliandparallelsided(Fig.7). Brachymeriini.InCratocentriniitistrace- 1. Lessthan2x aslongasbroadnear ableandcarina-likeasinBrachymeriini. toruliandalmostpear-shapedwith abluntlateralmargin(Fig.4). 4. Face. 2. Morethan2xaslongasbroadnear Mo01.s.tCDiocshntacilnaccvitdeliydosrcohfnalvavteex(Fai(ngF.iagl8.)m.7o)s.tconcave 3. tMfolorarunlgeie-talhniakdnep2leaxtaerar-sasllhomanapgregdaiswnbir(toFhiagds.hna9)er.ap,r facebecauseoftheverylargescrobalde- toruli and pear-shaped with a epyreessmiaorngine.xtIenndmionsgtfCrhaolmciedyienaematrhgeisncrot-o sharp, smooth lateral margin (Fig. bes are smaller and the face is flat or 8). slightly convex. In Phasgonophorini the Antennalscrobesaregenerallywellde- faceisdistinctlyconvexbecauseitbulges fined in Chalcididae. In Cratocentrini, forv^ardfromthevertexandeyemargin. Phasgonophorini, andBrachymeriinithey 5*.0.LoAcabtoivoentofhethleevaelntoefnnlaolwetorrueliy.emar- iafsrroepnrsd.oebeTaphbeelrystcdhruoaebnetsionafrooetrhlweoarnrgdcehraglriconiwdCitrdhast.oofcTehtnih-se 1. gBienlo(wFigt.he4).level oflowereye mar- ttrointihebecclayupseealthmeartgoriunlibaerleowloctahteedlevcellosoefr oetptmofehyarnoerCutnrgrlhaiaimielntnaio.rlglctiogooehncwrinaauentvl(trriFeeiiwdneghlt.iyiohjelc9euc)aes.omtttnaeoasrdrbiugfeslijetilunewso.nltwtosMlcbpyoateetshclheeitodaewsvPlaehotbhawhaotesevvhrgeeeoleneattvoynhhe-e-eel tmmIsgtolnuhaarielIrrugatngglhlrhitiiooslnnowsyoareemraoriepefnnseetpdtaolyPehorechtecit-ahaehmssetsseahgecrasordcgtpcnoahirebovenaodapi.bblthfaoayorlvpcoraepngicvseiani,avvttiiriyhln,taetagynthiceelsiriestoaailw(nsaneFfhttriloetogerrn.ctienttea4yahern)elde.-. 6. Antenna. In Phasgonophorini the scrobe cavity is 0. Slenderand longwith funicleseg- not margined sharply but in Brachymeria mentslongerthanbroad(Fig.60). and Cratocentrini itissharply margined. 1. Stout and short with only firstfu- The condition in Brachymeria isdistinctly nicle segment longer than broad different from that of Cratocentrini. The (Fig.61). sharp margin of Brachymeria is smooth Slenderandlongantennaarecharacter- andshinyand resemblestheconditionin isticofmostPhasgonophorini.Thefunic- Phasgonophorini. The scrobal margin of ular segments are elongated and of the Cratocentrini is more flange-like and the same width although slightly decreasing toruli are located relatively furtherapart in length towards the apex. By contrast, thaninBrachymeriiniorPhasgonophorini species with stout antenna have the first (Fig.9). 302 JournalofHymenopteraResearch i sFpi.g,s.fr1o-n8t.vi1e-3w.oLfofwaecer.f5r-o6n.tMvaileawrosiulfcaucse..15..CChliiinllccitiissspp..26..CBrrataocchcyiimtcnrimssspp..37.-8/'./m.F<a,cv;ei."'"7;.'''Pih""is^gI'oluootpo-ho4n.iStt\^/u(l'iaii(trai.i 8.Brnchymerinsp. Volume6,Number2,1997 303 Table2. Characterdiagnostics. Char- acter 304 JournalofHymenjopteraResearch Volume6,Number2,1997 305 1. Pronotal width less than 2.5x the 1. Reducedtoaverythinorknob-like medianlength(Fig. 15). sclerite(Fig.20). Both PhasgonophoriniandCratocentri- The chalcidid prepectus is a semi-an- ni have a relatively broad pronotum. In nular, transverse sclerite. Delvare (1992) Brachymeriini and Chalcidini the prono- foundthemedianprocessoftheprepectus tumisdistinctlyshortanterio-posteriorly. to be phylogenetically informative to re- 13. Pronotalsurface. swoiltvheinCChraaltcoicdeinntirinrielaantidonPshhaispsg.onHopohwoervienri 01.. 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Mesothoracicspiracle. pronotum,betweenthelateralmarginand 0. Covered by postero-lateral margin medianline. ofpronotum(Fig. 19). 1. Exposed(Fig.20). 14. Posteriormarginofthepronotum. InmostHymenopterathepronotallobe 0. Broadlyconcave(Fig.10). coversthemesothoracicspiraclecomplete- Th21e.. sMMheeaddpiiaaellollfyytrthreoiupanondsgtueeldrair(oFr(iFgim.ga.1r5g1)8.i)n.ofthe lctyoocv(eenGrtierbdisnoibnyh1at9vh8ee5)p.tohsCetheamrleicosirodtlihadotaereraacleixcmcaesrppgtiirCnarcalo-ef pronotumofchalcididsvariesfrombroad- thepronotum. mlyonclonycaovbesetroveemdarcgoinndaittei.onThiesmaosbtrocaodml-y 17*. Relativesizeandshapeofthetegula. concave posterior margin. This character 0. Linear, scond axillary sclerite cov- is probably correlated to the degree to ered(Fig.20). which the head can be directed back- 1. Both ventrally and posteriorly ex- wards. In mostPhasgonophorini thecur- panded,ovalshape,secondaxillary vatureissoacutethatitappearsmedially scleriteofthewingcompletelycov- triangular and in most Cratocentrini the ered. p15o)s.terior margin is more rounded (Fig. 2. Vlaernytrascllleyriteexpoafndtehed,wisnegconedxpoasxield- (Fig. 19) 15*. Externally visible region of the pre- In Chalcidini and Cratocentrini the pectus tegula is not modified, it is pear shaped 0. Relatively large and elongated, andextendsfrom theanterio-lateralmar- plate-hke(Fig.19). gin of pronotum to posterio-lateral mar- 306 JournalofHymenopteraResearch 2F0i.gs.Me1s7o-t24h.ora1x7-l1a8t.eraPlrovnieowt,um19.(aIr'rloMwfs^oiwnpdhiocartaei^rualiaislecid.a2r0e.asC)n.ito1c7c.iiTtrniigft-vusipn.i2s1p-.22I.H.AIxVimlsl^a'e^caunodplwsmcust»e/lc»lfurtm..1291-. PhasgoiwiilwrasiiUahi,22.Mcnachalcissp.,23.Plmi^^oiwplumish/oi/ii,lateralviewofthetlwrax(arrowindicate thesculpture).24.Chalcissp.,mesepisternum.