Stephanidae Leach, 1815

Binoy, C., Achterberg, C. Van, Kumar, P. Girish, Santhosh, S. & Sheela, S., 2020, A review of Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea) from India, with the description of five new species, Zootaxa 4838 (1), pp. 1-51 : 3

Family Stephanidae Leach, 1815

Stephanida Leach 1815: 142. Type genus: Stephanus Jurine, 1800 .

Stephanidae : Haliday 1839.

Diagnosis. Body slender; head with 5 protuberances (“coronal teeth”) along the ocellar area; head subspherical to oval; antenna with 23–40 flagellomeres; small protruding clypeus; frons and temple with or without ivory streaks; neck and pronotum anteriorly with or without emargination, emargination either weak or strong; hind leg with elongated hind coxa and usually a medially swollen femora, coxa annulate to weakly striate, femora armed with large teeth-like process and several denticles ventrally, tibia with or without an oblique submedial acarinate or carinate impression; first metasomal tergite fused with the sternite (except in genus Schlettererius Ashmead ), more or less elongate and cylindrical; pygidial process present in some genera; ovipositor and ovipositor sheath long with or without a subapical band (modified from van Achterberg 2002; Aguiar 2006).

Distribution. Cosmopolitan, but mainly restricted to tropical and subtropical areas ( van Achterberg 2002).