Holophris Mocsáry

Lucena, Daercio A. A., Santos-Neto, Pedro E., Zanella, Fernando C. V. & Almeida, Eduardo A. B., 2022, Taxonomic review of the elampine cuckoo wasps from northeastern Brazil (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), with the description of three new species, Zootaxa 5213 (3), pp. 201-235 : 216

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.