Carminator Shaw, 1988

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Carminator Shaw, 1988

Carminator Shaw 1988: 102; Shaw 1990b: 572; Mita et al. 2007: 202; Vilhelmsen et al. 2010: 663; Mita and Konishi 2011: 109. Type species: Carminator ater Shaw, 1988.

Diagnosis.

Carminator is diagnosed by the following morphological characters: shallow subantennal groove, mandible stout and with five teeth, head prognathous, wing venation reduced and pterostigma absent, fore tibia with a comb of stout spines, ovipositor strongly arched ( Shaw 1990b).

Biology.

Little is known about the biology of Carminator , but these wasps have been suspected to be parasitoids of wood-boring larvae of Coleoptera ( Mita and Konishi 2011).

Distribution.

Oriental, Australasian, and eastern Palaearctic regions.