Viereckia Ashmead, 1903 . Canad. Ent. 35: 324, 329. Female,?male.

Gender. Feminine.

Type species. Mutilla dunbrodia Péringuey, 1899 (female), by original designation (misspelled as dumbrodia).

Taxonomic history. Reduced to subgeneric status (in Smicromyrme Thomson, 1870) by Bradley & Bequaert, 1923: 229. Reinstated to generic status by Arnold, 1962: 848. Valid generic name.

Sex association. The male of the type species has not been recognized; the presumed males of other species were associated and described (as apterous) by Ashmead, 1903: 324 and associated (on the basis of a pair collected in copula, the male winged) but not described by Brothers, 1975: 592 .

Distribution. Afrotropical.