12. Genus Thaumatodryinus R. Perkins, 1905

Thaumatodryinus R. Perkins 1905: 58; Kieffer in Kieffer & Marshall 1906: 490; Kieffer 1914b: 16; Krombein 1952: 97; 1958: 98; 1979: 1243; Olmi 1984: 683; 1993b: 61; Virla & Olmi 2008: 370; Moya Raygoza & Olmi 2010: 98; Azevedo et al. 2010: 892; Xu et al. 2013: 242; Olmi & Virla 2014: 325; Tribull 2015: 20.

Type species. Thaumatodryinus koebelei R. Perkins 1905, by original designation.

Diagnosis. ♀ (Figs 156C, D) and ♂ (Figs 157A, B): see above diagnosis of the subfamily Thaumatodryininae .

Distribution. Worldwide, except Palaearctic region.

Hosts. Flatidae (Guglielmino et al. 2013) .

World species. 33 species are known, ten in the Afrotropical region.

Remarks. One fossil species ( Thaumatodryinus miocenicus Olmi 1995) was described in amber from the Dominican Republic. Brues (1923, 1933) described three fossil species of Thaumatodryinus from Baltic amber; they are now attributed to Harpactosphecion Haupt.