III. Subfamily Anteoninae R. Perkins, 1912

Dryininae Kieffer in Kieffer & Marshall 1905: 130, partim.

Anteoninae Kieffer in Kieffer & Marshall 1906: 510, partim.

Anteonini R. Perkins 1912: 7; Kieffer 1914b: 137; Richards 1939: 190; Muesebeck & Walkley 1951: 1040; Benoit 1954: 414. Anteoninae J. Perkins 1976: 13; Olmi 1984: 110; 1993a: 189; 1995b: 502; 1995d: 133; 1999: 93; Olmi & Bechly 2001: 41; He & Xu 2002: 97; Olmi 2004b: 147; Olmi & Virla 2006: 408; Virla & Olmi 2008: 369; Olmi et al. 2010: 30; Xu et al. 2013: 58; Olmi & Virla 2014: 41; Olmi & Xu 2015: 41; Olmi et al. 2016: 53.

Anteoninae Krombein 1979: 1240 partim.

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

Diagnosis. ♀: fully winged (Figs 31D, E, 80A, B, 97A, B), occasionally brachypterous (Figs 41A, B) or mi- cropterous (Figs 81C, D; 84A); occipital carina complete; mandible quadridentate, with teeth becoming regularly progressively larger from dorsal to ventral tooth (as in Fig. 6B); antenna without tufts of long setae and without ADOs; ocelli present; palpal formula 6/3; pronotal tubercle present; epicnemium exposed; forewing with three cells enclosed by pigmented veins (C, R and 1Cu) (Figs 31D, E, 80A, B, 97A, B); forewing with 2r-rs&Rs vein and pterostigma (Figs 31D, E, 80A, B, 97A, B); protarsus chelate (Figs 31D, E, 80A, B, 97A, B); chela without rudimentary claw (Figs 33C, 83B, 96F); protrochanter short and broad; tibial spurs 1/1/2. ♂: fully winged (Figs 32A, B, 80C, D, 97C, D), rarely brachypterous; occipital carina complete; mandible quadridentate, with teeth becoming regularly progressively larger from dorsal to ventral tooth (Fig. 6B); palpal formula 6/3; forewing with three cells enclosed by pigmented veins (C, R and 1Cu) (Figs 32A, B, 80C, D, 97C, D); forewing with 2r-rs&Rs vein and pterostigma (Figs 32A, B, 80C, D, 97C, D); forewing with PostabR1 shorter than pterostigma (Figs 32A, B, 80C, D, 97C, D); hypopygium not umbrella-shaped (Fig. 8H); basivolsella completely situated down distivolsella (Figs 35F, 86A); tibial spurs 1/1/2.

Distribution. Worldwide.

Hosts. Cicadellidae (Guglielmino & Olmi 1997, 2006, 2007; Guglielmino et al. 2013).

World species. 651 species are known, 138 in the Afrotropical region.

World genera. Seven genera are known, three in the Afrotropical region.

Remarks. The following four genera have not been recorded from the Afrotropical region: Anteonopsis Olmi, Rasnitsyn & Guglielmino, 2010 (fossil from Russian Far East, Magadan Region), Burmanteon Engel, 2003 (fossil from Burmese amber), Janzeniola Olmi, 2011 (fossil in Baltic amber), Metanteon Olmi, 1984 (Neotropical) .