Ettchellsia Cameron, 1909

Mita, Toshiharu & Shaw, Scott R., 2012, A taxonomic study on the genus Ettchellsia Cameron, with descriptions of three new species (Hymenoptera, Megalyridae, Dinapsini), ZooKeys 254, pp. 99-108 : 100

Genus Ettchellsia Cameron, 1909

Ettchellsia : Cameron 1909: 208; Baltazar 1961: 219; He 1991: 475

Type species.

Ettchellsia piliceps Cameron, 1909 (monotypic).

Diagnosis.

Eye margined posteriorly by post-orbital orbital carina; posterior border of mesopleuron smooth, without row of foveae; propodeum bearing unique pattern of longitudinal carinae (Figs 12-14); fuscous banding pattern present on fore wing (Figs 1, 4, 7) or wing entirely fuscous; fore wing with RS between RS+M and r-rs tubular (Fig. 4); apical part of RS tubular, arched toward stigma (Fig. 4); M+Cu and Cu1 spectral (Fig. 4); hind coxa bearing longitudinal carina; hind tibia rugose (Figs 1, 4, 7).

Detail generic character states were discussed by Shaw (1990) and Vilhelmsen et al. (2010).

Key to the females of the species of Ettchellsia