Neostethynium, Ogloblin, 1964

Huber, John T., Read, Jennifer D. & Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2024, Illustrated key to the genera and catalogue of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) in the Neotropical region, Zootaxa 5557 (1), pp. 1-263 : 84-85

NEOSTETHYNIUM Ogloblin , 1964

( Figs 199–205)

Stethynium (Neostethynium) Ogloblin, 1964b: 106 . Type species: Neostethynium stenopterum Ogloblin, 1964 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Head in lateral view with vertex flat and at a right angle with face and with occiput ( Fig. 204); face with faint subantennal sulcus ventral to each torulus ( Fig. 199a); toruli separated by about their own height from transverse trabecula ( Fig. 199a); mandibles small, not meeting when closed, each with at least 1 small tooth ( Fig. 199a); funicle 6-segmented, clava 3-segmented with the divisions between segments transverse ( Fig. 200); frenum entire ( Fig. 202); fore wing narrow with rounded apex ( Fig. 201).

Remarks. Neostethynium belongs to the Anagrus group of genera. It has a 3-segmented clava as in Krokella , Neopolynemoidea , Notomymar , Paranaphoidea and Stethynium . See under Notomymar , the most similar genus, for differences between the two genera.

Neotropical hosts. Unknown.

Important references. Ogloblin (1964b), Huber et al. (2020).