Odontepyris Kieffer, 1904

Wang, Chung-Hong, He, Jun-Hua & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2021, The genus Odontepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from China, Zootaxa 4964 (3), pp. 497-522 : 498

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Odontepyris Kieffer, 1904: 378 .

Type species: Odontepyris flavinervis Kieffer, 1904 .

Trissomalus Kieffer, 1905: 105 .

Type species: Goniozus transvaalensis du Buysson, 1897: 354 . Subsequent designation. Synonymized by Polaszek & Krombein, 1994: 98.

Diagnosis. Median clypeal lobe large, triangular or subtriangular ( Fig. 2b View FIGURE 2 , Fig. 4b View FIGURE 4 ); dorsal pronotal area wider than long ( Fig. 3e View FIGURE 3 ); notaulus absent ( Fig. 2e View FIGURE 2 ); mesoscutellum with pair of pits ( Fig. 2e View FIGURE 2 ); mesopleuron large ( Fig. 7f View FIGURE 7 ), mesopleural dentate process present or not; metapostnotal median carina present ( Fig. 9f View FIGURE 9 ); metapostnotal lateral carina present ( Fig. 9f View FIGURE 9 ) or not ( Fig. 2g View FIGURE 2 ); lateral marginal carina and transverse posterior carina of metapectal-propodeal complex present ( Fig. 9f View FIGURE 9 ); prestigma and pterostigma of forewing present ( Fig. 2h View FIGURE 2 ); second radial 1 cell of forewing opened ( Fig. 2h View FIGURE 2 ); first median cell of forewing closed ( Figs 2h View FIGURE 2 ) or opened ( Fig. 9h View FIGURE 9 ); Rs+M 2 v shorter than Rs 2 v ( Fig. 2h View FIGURE 2 ).

Biology. All hosts known are lepidopterous larvae, e.g., Noctuidae , Oecophoridae , Pyralidae and Tortricidae ( Pruthi & Mani 1942; Kurian 1954, 1955; Nagy 1976; Georgiev et al. 2001; Lim et al. 2009).

Distribution. Australian, Afrotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic Regions ( Azevedo et al. 2018).