Pararhabdepyris Gorbatovsky, 1995

Vargas, Juan M. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2016, Three new species of Pararhabdepyris Gorbatovsky (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from Central Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, Zootaxa 4117 (3), pp. 429-439 : 430

Genus Pararhabdepyris Gorbatovsky, 1995

Pararhabdepyris Gorbatovsky, 1995: 183 (key), 188 (diagnosis), fig. 82, 5, ♀; 1998: 681 (descr.), ♀. Type species Pararhabdepyris paradoxus Gorbatovsky, 1995 , by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Female. Head apparently hypognathous and wider than long. Lateral and medial clypeal lobes inconspicuously differentiated. Antenna with ten flagellomeres; scape slightly curve to straight, slightly wider apically. Eye large. Subocular groove variable if present. Occipital carina absent. Hypostomal carina forming obtuse angle medially. Palpal formula 4:1 or 5:2. Pronotal disc wider than long, trapezoidal. Forewing elongate with one or two closed cells; costal vein absent; submedian cell if present as long as or shorter than median cell; prostigma as long as basal vein (M) and separated each other by unpigmented area, radial vein long, parallel to anterior margin or slightly curved forward. Hind wing with costal and anal veins short; dorsal face glabrous or scarcely setose, posterior margin densely fringed, with three hamuli, most proximal hamuli separated or not from others, posterior margin with well-developed jugal lobe fringed with long setae. Legs with tarsal claw simple and arched, apex sharp. Metasoma not petiolate, tergite 2 longer than remain. Male. Unknown.

Remarks. A few characters used by Azevedo & Barbosa (2010) deserve reinterpretation, thus the hypostomal suture forms an obtuse angle rather than acute, the forewing has at most two closed cells, and the costal vein is always absent. This genus can be immediately separated from all other Scleroderminae by the presence of hypognathous head with unusual shape in frontal view showing the anterior half of head strongly angled, the forewing with long radial vein and metasomal segment 2 unusually long.