Eupelmus (Episolindelia) Girault

Gibson, Gary A. P., 2011, 2951, Zootaxa 2951, pp. 1-97 : 9

Eupelmus (Episolindelia) Girault

Episolindelia Girault, 1914 .

Eupelmus (Episolindelia) ; Gibson, 1995.

Remarks. Females of E. ( Episolindelia ) are differentiated from females of E. ( Eupelmus ) by the features given in Gibson (1995) and in the key to subgenera above. Females are always macropterous, have hyaline forewings, and the ovipositor sheaths are obliquely strigose basally. The strigose region constitutes the basal dark region in those females with a bicolored sheath, and usually has noticeably longer setae dorsally and often is slightly thinner than the rest of the sheath. The latter feature is most conspicuous for females of E. varicauda in which the sheaths appear somewhat clavate.

Unlike males of E. ( Eupelmus ) and most males of E. ( Macroneura ), it is likely that males of at least regional species of E. ( Episolindelia ) do not have a differentiated long seta below the malar sulcus or a row of distally curved setae along the ventral margin of the pedicel. This conclusion is based on the males of E. australiensis and the proposed sex association for E. rubicola . It is further likely that regional males E. ( Episolindelia ) have a filiform or clavate flagellum depending on whether conspecific females have a similar antennal structure (cf. Figs 1, 6 and 3, 7).