Dendrocerus Ratzeburg, 1852

Dendrocerus Ratzeburg, 1852: 180. Type species: Dendrocerus lichtensteinii Ratzeburg, by monotypy (= Ceraphron halidayi Curtis).

Diagnosis.

Head moderately transverse; facial pit absent in most species. Males usually with an obtuse ocellar triangle (POL longer than LOL). Male flagellomeres usually asymmetrical, serrate or trapezoidal. Some species also have branched flagellomeres ( D. mexicali group). Metapleural sulcus shape usually straight. Sternaulus never present. Medioventral conjunctiva of gonostyle-volsella complex (parossiculi fusion) absent. Wings never absent (Trietsch et al. 2020).