Kriechbaumerella Dalla Torre, 1897

Narendran, T. C. & van Achterberg, Cornelis, 2016, Revision of the family Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from Vietnam, with the description of 13 new species, ZooKeys 576, pp. 1-202 : 105-107

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chalcididae

Kriechbaumerella Dalla Torre, 1897 Figs 152, 153-154, 155, 156-157, 158-159, 160-161, 162, 163-164

Coleops Kriechbaumer, 1894b: 316-317. Type species (by monotypy): Coleops palpebratus Kriechbaumer, 1894. Preoccupied by Coleops Blyth, 1849.

Kriechbaumerella Dalla Torre, 1897: 84. Replacement name for Coleops Kriechbaumer.

Eucepsis Steffan, 1953: 8, 12. Type species (by original designation): Stomatoceras magrettii Kirby, 1886. Synonymised with Kriechbaumerella Dalla Torre by Narendran (1984).

Diagnosis.

This genus is similar to the genera Antrocephalus and Hockeria , but differs mainly in having the ventral margin of the teeth of the hind femur three-lobed or typically wavy and in Hockeria the frontal carina is not horseshoe-shaped.

Description.

Face with prominent horseshoe-shaped carina (as in Antrocephalus ) running behind anterior ocellus; pronotum with carinae restricted to lateral third, medially not turning backwards or projecting as tubercles; apex of scutellum usually bi-dentate; ventral margin of wide hind femur with ventral margin of teeth three lobed; PMV always longer than STV; metasoma sessile.

Hosts.

Parasitoids of pupae of Lepidoptera .

Distribution.

Asia, Europe and Africa.

Key to Vietnamese species of the genus Kriechbaumerella Dalla Torre (based on females)