Foenatopus Smith, 1861

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 : 4

Genus Foenatopus Smith, 1861

Foenatopus Smith 1861: 58 . Type species (by monotypy): Stephanus indicus Westwood, 1841 .

Diastephanus Enderlein 1905: 473 . Type species: Stephanus flavomaculatus Enderlein, 1901 . Synonymized by Benoit, 1956.

Neostephanus Kieffer 1904: 1–4 . Type species (by monotypy): Neostephanus alluaudi Kieffer, 1904 . Synonymized by Narendran et al. 2001.

Diagnosis. Members of the genus are characterized by the presence of pale ivory to yellowish streak along both the inner and outer margins of eye; reduced venation with the absence of veins 2-SR and 2-SR+M of the fore wing and the absence of or hardly seen 1-SR vein; Vein 2 Cu1 of fore wing nearly always reduced, but sometimes complete; 2-SR and 2-SR+M of fore wing absent; anteriorly emarginate neck with fine striae, no distinct pronotal fold basally; the presence of a large sclerite in between the hind coxae; outer side of hind tibia usually without fine oblique striae, with or without ventral fine carinae; three tarsomeres in females, five tarsomeres in males; eighth metasomal tergite without apical protuberance; ovipositor sheath usually with ivory or yellowish subapical band ( Hong et al. 2011; Gadallah & Edmardash 2015).

Distribution. Afrotropical, Neotropical, Palaearctic and Oriental.

Notes. Foenatopus Smith is represented by 159 species worldwide of which 20 were reported from India ( Narendran & Sureshan 2003; Sureshan et al. 2013; Gupta & Gawas 2020). Two new species viz., F. chareshi Binoy, van Achterberg & Girish Kumar sp. nov. and F. sureshani Binoy, van Achterberg & Girish Kumar sp. nov. are described here with illustrations and is incorporated into a key to Indian species modified from Narendran et al. (2001) and Narendran & Sureshan (2003).