III. Subfamily Anteoninae R. Perkins, 1912

Dryininae partim Kieffer in Kieffer & Marshall 1905: 130.

Anteoninae partim Kieffer in Kieffer & Marshall 1906: 510.

Anteonini R. Perkins 1912: 7; Kieffer 1914b: 137; Richards 1939: 190; Muesebeck & Walkley 1951: 1040.

Anteoninae J. Perkins 1976: 13; Olmi 1984: 110; Olmi 1993a: 189; Olmi 1995b: 502; Olmi 1995d: 133; Olmi 1999: 93; Olmi & Bechly 2001: 41; He & Xu 2002: 97; Olmi & Virla 2006: 408; Virla & Olmi 2008: 369; Olmi, Rasnitsyn & Guglielmino 2010: 30.

Anteoninae partim Krombein 1979: 1240.

Type genus. Anteon Jurine, 1807, designated by Olmi (1984).

Diagnosis. Female: fully winged, occasionally brachypterous or micropterous; occipital carina complete; mandible quadridentate, with teeth progressing larger from anterior one to posterior (Plate 3D); antenna without tufts of long hairs and without rhinaria; ocelli present; palpal formula 6/3; pronotal tubercles present; fore wing with three cells enclosed by pigmented veins (costal, median and submedian) (Plates 28D, 54A, 59A); fore wing with stigmal vein and pterostigma (Plates 28D, 54A, 59A); protarsus chelate (Plates 28D, 54A, 59A); chela without rudimentary claw (Plates 17C, 56C, 60B); protrochanter short and broad; tibial spurs 1/1/2. Male: fully winged, rarely brachypterous; occipital carina complete; mandible quadridentate, with teeth progressing larger from anterior one to posterior (Plate 3D); palpal formula 6/3; fore wing with three cells enclosed by pigmented veins (costal, median and submedian) (Plates 43C, 55A, 60A); fore wing with stigmal vein and pterostigma (Plates 43C, 55A, 60A); fore wing with metacarpus shorter than pterostigma (Plates 43C, 55A, 60A); basivolsella completely situated down distivolsella (Plates 17D, 56D, 63A); tibial spurs 1/1/2.

Distribution. Worldwide.

Hosts. Cicadellidae (Guglielmino & Olmi, 1997, 2006, 2007).

World species. Five hundred and ninety seven species are known, 162 in the Oriental region.

World genera. Seven genera are known, four in the Oriental region.

Remarks. The following three genera are not quoted from the Oriental region: Anteonopsis Olmi, Rasnitsyn & Guglielmino, 2010 (compression fossil from Eastern Siberia), Janzeniola Olmi, 2011 (fossil in Baltic amber), Metanteon Olmi, 1984 (Neotropical) .

Key to the genera

Females

1. Inner side of enlarged claw with one row of at least four bristles (Plate 52H)................2. Burmanteon Engel (fossil)

- Inner side of enlarged claw with only one–two bristles or peg-like hairs located proximally (Plates 17C, 56C, 60B)....... 2

2. Inner side of enlarged claw with proximal prominence not bearing bristles (Plates 54B, 56C, 57D), with one–two short bristles or peg-like hairs located further distally than proximal prominence (Plates 54B, 56C, 57D)...... 3. Deinodryinus R. Perkins

- Inner side of enlarged claw with proximal prominence bearing one long bristle (Plates 17C, 60B)..................... 3

3. Fore wing with distal part of stigmal vein as long as, or longer than proximal part (Plates 59A, 62A); occasionally distal part of stigmal vein slightly shorter than proximal part, but then propodeum without strong transverse keel between dorsal and posterior surface.......................................................................4. Lonchodryinus Kieffer

- Fore wing with distal part of stigmal vein much shorter than proximal part (Plate 28D); occasionally distal part of stigmal vein slightly shorter than proximal part, but then propodeum with strong transverse keel between dorsal and posterior surface............................................................................................ 1. Anteon Jurine

Males (unknown in Burmanteon Engel)

1. Fore wing with pterostigma four or more than four times as long as broad (Plate 55B), occasionally less than four times as long as broad, but then paramere with branch wrapping penis (Plates 56D – F, 57A, B)..............3. Deinodryinus R. Perkins

- Fore wing with pterostigma less than four times as long as broad (Plate 43C, 60A); paramere usually without branch wrapping penis (Plates 17D, 63A)................................................................................ 2

2. Fore wing with distal part of stigmal vein much shorter than proximal part (Plate 43C); occasionally slightly shorter, or as long as, or longer than proximal part, but then propodeum with strong transverse keel between dorsal and posterior surface.............................................................................................. 1. Anteon Jurine

- Fore wing with distal part of stigmal vein as long as, or longer than proximal part (Plate 60A), occasionally slightly shorter than proximal part, but then propodeum without transverse keel between dorsal and posterior surface....................................................................................................4. Lonchodryinus Kieffer