Genus Synaldis Foerster, 1863

Diagnosis

Mandibles tridentate, teeth of differing shape and length.Paraclypeal fovea short, far from reaching ventral margin of eye. Mesoscutal pit present or absent. Precoxal sulcus always present, usually not reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron. Pterostigma very long and narrow. Vein 2-SR always absent; break between veins r and 3-SR absent and abscissae here only gently and rather widely curved. Veins m-cu and cu-a always postfurcal.

Hosts

Diptera larvae, mainly of the family Phoridae and possibly Drosophilidae .