Dryinidae Haliday, 1833

Olmi, Massimo, Copeland, Robert S. & Noort, Simon Van, 2019, Dryinidae of the Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea), Zootaxa 4630 (1), pp. 1-619 : 24

Dryinidae Haliday, 1833

Proctotrupii Latreille 1805: 226, partim.

Dryini Haliday 1833: 273.

Dryinidae Haliday in Walker 1837: 411 , partim; Haliday 1839: 3; Marshall 1873: 5; Ashmead 1887: 74; 1893: 80; Dalla Torre 1898: 536, partim; Kieffer in Kieffer & Marshall 1904: 52; R. Perkins 1905: 26, partim; Kieffer 1907: 1; R. Perkins 1912: 7; Berland 1928: 137; Hellén 1935: 7; Richards 1937: 118; Haupt 1938: 15; Richards 1939: 188, partim; 1953: 51; Muesebeck & Walkley 1951: 1034; Hellén 1953: 91, partim; Ceballos 1956: 273; De Santis 1967: 230; J. Perkins 1976: 9; Ponomarenko 1978: 20; Krombein 1979: 1240; Olmi 1984: 1; Gauld & Bolton 1988: 224; Naumann 1991: 971; Finnamore & Brothers 1993: 57; Olmi 1994b: 34; 1998b: 53; 1999: 5; He & Xu 2002: 1; Rasnitsyn 2002: 244; Olmi 2007a: 6; Xu et al. 2013: 8; Olmi & Virla 2014: 9; Olmi & Xu 2015: 9; Tribull 2015: 15.

Dryinoidae Förster 1856: 20; 1861: 39.

Dryinini Thomson 1860: 175 .

Dryinae Cameron 1888: 440.

Anteonidae Kieffer 1911a: 108.

Anteoninae Kieffer 1914b: 7 ; Fenton 1918: 258.

Type genus. Dryinus Latreille, 1804 , by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea with antenna composed of 10 antennomeres, inserted on flat or concave surface below middle of head, with torulus a distance less than its width from aboral margin of clypeus; head in lateral view concave or slightly convex anteriorly; ♀ protarsus usually provided with one chela, composed of a laterally protruding fifth tarsomere and one enlarged claw; ♀ protarsus less commonly unmodified (in 94 of 1845 world species).

Distribution. Worldwide.

Hosts. Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha ( Guglielmino & Olmi 1997, 2006, 2007; Guglielmino et al. 2013).

World species. 1884 species are known, 430 in the Afrotropical region (including four species incertae sedis).

World genera. 50 genera are known, 23 in the Afrotropical region.

World subfamilies. 16 subfamilies (12 extant) are known, nine in the Afrotropical region.

Remarks. The following seven subfamilies have not been found in the Afrotropical region: Burmadryininae Olmi, Xu & Guglielmino 2014 (fossil, Burmese amber), Erwiniinae Olmi & Guglielmino 2010 (Neotropical, Olmi & Guglielmino 2010a), Palaeoanteoninae Olmi & Bechly 2001 (fossil, Baltic amber), Plesiodryininae Olmi 1987 (Nearctic, Olmi 1987b), Ponomarenkoinae Olmi 2010 (fossil, Baltic and Burmese amber, Olmi 2010 a, Xu et al. 2013), Protodryininae Olmi & Guglielmino 2012 (fossil, Baltic amber), Transdryininae Olmi 1984 (Australian).