Sinophorus Förster, 1869

Han, Yuan-Yuan, Achterberg, Kees Van & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2021, Five new species of the genus Sinophorus Förster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae Campopleginae) from China, Zootaxa 5061 (1), pp. 115-133 : 117

Genus Sinophorus Förster, 1869

Type species: Limneria canarsiae Ashmead, 1898 = Sinophorus validus (Cresson, 1864) ; designated by Viereck (1914).

Diagnosis. Body stout; fore wing 3.0–8.0 mm long; clypeus large, flat to weakly convex, with apical margin truncate to weakly convex; frons with or without a medio-longitudinal carina; eyes weakly notched to distinctly notched opposite antennal socket; temple 0.7–1.4× as long as eyes in lateral view; episternal scrobe round to oval, shallowly to deeply impressed; mesopleural suture impressed as a sharp groove; propodeum with area superomedia and area petiolaris confluent and forming broad trough; fore wing with areolet present; hind tarsal claw 1.3–2.0× longer than arolium, with 2–10 weak to strong teeth; first metasomal segment quadrate in cross-section at basal 0.3, sometimes pentagonal, suture separating first tergite from sternite a little below middle of segment; first metasomal tergite with or without a lateral longitudinal groove; ovipositor straight to strongly upcurved, tip of upper valve of ovipositor 0.9–2.0× as long as hind telotarsus.