Aspilota
Förster, 1863
Aspilota is a of in the Braconidae, Alysiinae. The genus was established by Förster in 1863 and includes distributed across the Holarctic and Neotropical regions. Recent taxonomic work has described new species from Denmark and Argentina, expanding the known geographic range of the genus. Aspilota is classified within the Alysiinae, a subfamily characterized by koinobiont endoparasitoid , though species-specific biological details for Aspilota remain poorly documented.
Pronunciation
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Distribution
Recorded from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the United States (Vermont), and Argentina. The has a transcontinental distribution spanning the Palearctic, Nearctic, and Neotropical regions.
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Taxonomic History
Aspilota contains two recognized subgenera: Aspilota (Eusynaldis) and Aspilota (Synaldis), both previously treated as separate . Eusynaldis was described by Zaykov & Fischer in 1982, and Synaldis by Förster in 1863.
Species Diversity
Two new were described from Denmark in 2016: Aspilota leptoarticulata and A. grandis. A new species, A. murieli, was described from Argentina in 2025, representing the first record of the in that country.
Sources and further reading
- BugGuide
- Wikipedia
- GBIF taxonomy match
- iNaturalist taxon
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Catalogue of Life
- Catalogue of Danish Alysiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), with the description of two new species of Aspilota Foerster, 1863
- First record of the genus Aspilota Foerster, 1863 in Argentina (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae), with the description of the new species Aspilotamurieli sp. nov. and a key to the Neotropical taxa.