Subfamily Cleptinae Latreille, 1802

Diagnosis. Cleptinae can be distinguished from other Chrysididae subfamilies by metasoma convex ventrally, with four visible terga in females and five in males; pronotum campanulate, narrowed anteriorly, subdivided by the transverse pronotal sulcus in the anterior pronotal flange and the bell-shaped dorsal pronotal area; metapectal-propodeal complex (propodeum in Kimsey & Bohart (1991) and Móczár 1996b) with elongate dorsal surface and vertical propodeal declivity, posterolaterally angulated to dentate; claws dentate; forewing with weakly defined discoidal cell and an incomplete, or lacking, radial sector vein; ovipositor long and robust.