Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879: 26

Rosa, Paolo, Zilioli, Michele & Jacobs, Maarten, 2017, Notes on endemic Alpine chrysidids, with key to Alpine Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879, and remarks on two rarely collected species (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), Natural History Sciences 4 (1), pp. 9-18 : 10

Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879: 26 . Type species: Holopyga cicatrix Abeille de Perrin, 1879 (= Philoctetes micans (Klug, 1835)) . Designated by Ashmead, 1902.

Generic diagnosis

1) short malar space (≤1 MOD), not distinctly bisected by the curved genal carina;

2) genal carina usually faint or not sharply elevated;

3) pronotum weakly to strongly concave laterally and punctate medially;

4) mesoscutum with punctures clumped along notauli, or more evenly distributed, but anyway gathering together toward notauli;

5) mesopleuron extending ventrally as an oblique angle, ecarinate and not strongly projecting between omaulus and scrobal carina;

6) metascutellum conical to spine-like;

7) forewing with medial cell glabrous, medial vein strongly arched, stigma short;

8) fore femur often carinate ventrally;

9) tarsal claws with 1-3 subsidiary teeth ( Rosa et al. 2015b).