Ephedrus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Ichneumonoidea

Familia: Braconidae
Subfamilia: Aphidiinae
Tribus: Ephedrini
Genus: Ephedrus
Subgenera (4): Breviephedrus – Ephedrus – Fovephedrus – Lysephedrus
Overview of species (47)

E. angustithoracicus – E. blattnyi – E. brevis – E. californicus – E. cavariellae – E. cerasicola – E. chaitophori – E. cheni – E. clavicornis – E. curtus – E. dioscoreae – E. dysaphidis – E. helleni – E. himalayensis – E. hyaloptericolus – E. hyadaphidis – E. incompletus – E. jiangsuensis – E. koponeni – E. lacertosus – E. laevicollis – E. longiarticulatus – E. longistigmus – E. lonicerae – E. mandjuriensis – E. meliarhizophagi – E. mirabilis – E. nacheri – E. nelumbus – E. niger – E. orientalis – E. perillae – E. persicae – E. plagiator – E. primordialis – E. prociphili – E. quadratum – E. radiatus – E. ramnagarensis – E. robustus – E. rugosus – E. srinagarensis – E. tanycoleosus – E. transversus – E. trichosiphoniellae – E. urticae – E. vaccinii – E. validus
Source(s) of checklist:
Name

Ephedrus Haliday, 1833

Type species: Bracon plagiator Nees

Synonyms

Elassus Wesmael, 1835. TS: Aphidius parcicornis Nees

References

Akhtar, M.S.; Khan, F.R.; Ramamurthy, V.V. 2011: Description of a new species of the genus Ephedrus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) from India with an up to date checklist. Pan-Pacific entomologist, 87(2): 98–105. DOI: 10.3956/2010-18.1 Reference page.
Gärdenfors, U. 1986: Taxonomic and biological revision of Palearctic Ephedrus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Aphidiinae). Entomologica scandinavica, supplement, (27)
Kocić, K., Petrović, A., Čkrkić, J., Mitrović, M. & Tomanović 2019. Phylogenetic relationships and subgeneric classification of European Ephedrus species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Aphidiinae). Zookeys, 878: 1–22. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.878.38408 Open access Reference page.
Liu, C.S. 1968: The genus Ephedrus Haliday of Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae). Journal of Taiwan agricultural research, 17: 35–48.