Tineobius Ashmead, 1896

Lucian Fusu & Antoni Ribes, 2017, Description of the first Palaearctic species of Tineobius Ashmead, 1896 with DNA data, a checklist of world species, and nomenclatural changes in Eupelmidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea), European Journal of Taxonomy 263, pp. 1-19 : 4

Genus Tineobius Ashmead, 1896

Diagnosis

Females can be recognized by the following combination of characters: vast majority of species with a conspicuously lengthened maxillary palpus with apical palpal segment elongate, distinctly curved or with inner margin angulate basally, prepectus with light-coloured and large frontal surface, propodeum with transverse plical depression and either with membranous white spot or line within depression (nominal subgenus and Duanellus ) or with whitish membranous bottom (in T. ( Progenitobius ) Gibson, 1995), mesotibia without oblique apical groove, gaster with deeply emarginate syntergum and very long and flamentous ovipositor sheaths ( Gibson 1995). Excluding some T. ( Progenitobius ), metatibia conspicuously compressed with laminate dorsal margin and white along lamina or at least dorsobasally, with the exception of some T. ( Duanellus ).