Apenesia Westwood 1874

Lim, Jongok, Terayama, Mamoru, Koh, Sanghyun, Lee, Jongwook & Lee, Seunghwan, 2011, A taxonomic review of the subfamily Pristocerinae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea: Bethylidae) from Korea with descriptions of two new species, Journal of Natural History 45 (7 - 8), pp. 435-460 : 438-440

Genus Apenesia Westwood 1874

Apenesia Westwood 1874 , Thesaurus Entomol Oxoniensis. Vol. 4: 170 (type species: Apenesia amazonica Westwood, 1874 ).

Aeluroides Tullgren, 1904 .

Propristocera Kieffer, 1905 .

Cleistepyris Kieffer, 1910 .

Dipristocera Kieffer, 1914 .

Neopristocera Benoit, 1957 .

Diagnosis

Male. Mandible usually with five teeth; clypeus with median lobe of very variable shape, but never trapezoidal, but is narrowly truncate; compound eye usually without hairs; occipital carina present; scutellum with transverse groove at base; propodeum

without marked basal triangle; forewing with costal vein extending well past stigma as strong vein.

Female. Mandible with from two to four teeth; clypeus emarginated, truncate or somewhat produced medially (trapezoid in some species); ocelli absent; mesopleuron smooth; wings and tegulae absent; mesonotum subtriangular, rounded behind, anterior margin of propodeum slightly extended along sides of mesonotum and arcuately embracing its posterior third ( Evans 1963b; Lanes and Azevedo 2007).