Encarsia Förster 1878

Remarks. See Noyes (2012) for generic synonymy.

Diagnosis. Encarsia is recognized by the following combination of morphological characters: head in frontal view distinctly wider than high, dorsum transverse; mandible with 3 teeth, 2 teeth and a truncation, or very rarely four teeth; female antenna 8-segmented, with scape cylindrical; mid lobe of mesoscutum with 2 to more than 30 setae, but usually with 6–12; scutellum wider than long, with 2 pairs of setae and 1 pair of placoid sensilla; submarginal vein of fore wing usually with 2 setae, marginal vein longer than submarginal and with variable number of setae, postmarginal vein absent, stigmal vein very short, disc densely setose; legs with tarsi 5-segmented or mid tarsus 4-segmented; gaster with 7 terga; ovipositor exerted or not, relative lengths of third valvula and second valvifer variable. Male similar to female except for genitalia and antennal flagellum. Body color in both sexes variable; wings hyaline or infuscate; body never strongly sclerotized and metallic, length 0.5–2 mm.