Pentapleura Foerster, 1863

Figs 19–26

Pentapleura Foerster, 1863: 264; Shenefelt 1974: 1001; Wharton 1980: 57; Ashmead 1900: 105; Szépligeti 1904: 205.

Type species: Bassus pumilio Nees von Esenbeck, 1814 (monobasic).

Opisendea Foerster, 1863: 266 . Type species: Opisendea tenuicornis Foerster 1863 (monobasic). Synonymised by Wharton (1980).

Gnathospila Fischer, 1966b: 210 . Type species: Gnathospila quadridens Fischer 1966b (monobasic). Synonymised by Fischer (1970).

Diagnosis. Mandible with four teeth, second tooth of mandible long, triangular, fourth tooth often minute or inconspicuous (Figs 20K–L, 22H, 22K–L, 24H,24K–L, 26K–L); first flagellomere of antenna longer than second flagellomere (Figs 20H, 22G, 24G, 26F); precoxal sulcus absent or nearly so, at most shallowly impressed and with some micro-sculpture (Figs 20D, 22D, 24C, 26C); shape of pterostigma variable; vein CU1b of fore wing absent, resulting in an apico-posteriorly open first subdiscal cell; vein m-cu of fore wing postfurcal (Figs 20A–B, 22A–B, 24A, 26A–B).

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Nearctic, Oceanic and Palaearctic region (Yu et al. 2016).