Tropidodynerus Bluethgen, 1939
Tropidodynerus Blüthgen, 1939: 259, 260; Carpenter 1986: 87; van der Vecht and Carpenter 1990: 59; Girish Kumar et al. 2013: 163.
Type species.
Hoplomerus interruptus ( Brullé, 1832) = Hoplomerus mandibularis Morawitz, 1885 (= Polistes interrupta Brullé, 1832), by original designation (confirmed by Blüthgen 1941: 306).
Diagnosis.
Without cephalic fovea in female; vertex weakly longitudinally rugose; mesosoma and tempora with very fine pubescence, anterior face of pronotum without foveae; tegula very short and its posterior lobe rounded; parategula elongated and its apex distinctly surpassing the apex of tegula; apical segments of antennae coiled in male; submarginal carina and valvula of propodeum not produced; mid tibia with one spur; forewing with second submarginal cell and not petiolate; metasoma sessile, S3-S7 with conspicuous fringe of setae in male.
Distribution.
Oriental and Palearctic Regions.
Key to the subgenera of Tropidodynerus
| 1 | Labial palpi 3-segmented; propodeum completely rounded at side, dorsal surface strongly convex; the Oriental Region (Giordani Soika 1994; Girish Kumar 2013) | subgenus Tropidepipona |
| - | Labial palpi 4-segmented; propodeum somewhat rounded at side, dorsal surface not convex; the Palearctic Region (Giordani Soika 1994; Girish Kumar 2013) | subgenus Tropidodynerus |