Genus Holophris Mocsáry

This genus comprises small, beautiful, and enigmatic wasps. Most species are found in tropical regions of the world (Rosa et al. 2016), and nothing is known about their biology. The genus is distinguished from other South American Elampini based on the following combination of characteristics: scapal basin smooth; occipital carina long and intersecting below with the genal carina; notaulus indistinct or absent; mesopleuron subquadrate, double carinate transversely; scutellum with groove along the anterior edge, partially interrupted medially; metanotum elongate (longer than scutellum); vertex, pronotum, scutum, and metasomal terga polished and widely impunctate; terga with broad semitransparent marginal rim; R 2 c and 1Cu 2 c without setae; and the posterior propodeal projection indistinct and not protruding. There are six Neotropical species, three of them occurring in Brazil (Kimsey & Bohart 1991). For the first time the genus is recorded in northeastern Brazil.