Genus : Pediobius Walker, 1846

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Diagnosis

Fore wing with submarginal vein (SMV) with 2 setae dorsally. Postmarginal vein (PMV) present and slightly longer than stigmal vein (STV).
Antenna with 3 funicular segments and club 2-segmented. Usually funicular segments are distinct and well-separated. Male scape with sensory pores placed on the ventral margin.
Head with fronto-facial suture distinctly separated from anterior ocellus and Y-shaped.
Mesosoma usually strongly sculptured. Pronotum with transverse carina. Notauli usually incomplete, although sometimes complete or with distinct grooves or depressions posteriorly. Mesoscutum without median longitudinal groove. Scutellum with a single pair of setae and without longitudinal grooves. Propodeum with 2 median carinae diverging posteriorly and with plica.
Petiole distinct.
Coloration dark to dark-green metallic.

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

Classification

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Overview

Pediobius is a large genus containing almost 200 species. It is cosmopolitan in distribution, although it is very well represented in the Old World tropics region (Noyes, 2002; 2003). Species have an extremely wide host range, and there are only a very few species which are associated with agromyzid leafminers.
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Identification

Pediobius 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).
Keys to species include Europe (Boucek, 1965), North America (Peck, 1985) and Japan (Kamijo, 1986). Kerrich (1973) revised the Tropical and Subtropical species, concentrating mainly on the Old World fauna.

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