Brachymeria Westwood

Aquino, Daniel Alejandro, Tavares, Marcelo Texeira, Balducci, Ezequiel, Baca, Verónica & Quinteros, Sara Quintana De, 2015, The microlepidopterous natural enemy Brachymeria subrugosa Blanchard, 1942 (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae): identity, hosts and geographic distribution, Zootaxa 4013 (2), pp. 293-300 : 294

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.2.10
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DD8B8ECA-B3F5-4122-8D9C-E088D56B4546
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6103406
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CEFE24-8E2B-FF8D-FF00-FC53FFCE52CB
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Brachymeria Westwood
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Brachymeria was recently diagnosed by Andrade & Tavares (2009) and is based on the following characteristics: hind tarsal claw with a falciform process (Brachymeriini); scrobal-malar carina absent; mandibular formula 2:3 or 2:2, in the later instance upper tooth at least half as long as lower tooth and never distant from the mandible apex; occipital carina not converging to occipital foramen; and diameter of mesonotal umbilicated fovea at least 0.25× as large as mid ocellar diameter.