Spalangiinae Haliday, 1833

Gibson, Gary A. P., 2009, 2259, Zootaxa 2259, pp. 1-159 : 11

Spalangiinae Haliday, 1833

Diagnosis. Body, excluding legs, uniformly brown to black without obvious metallic luster. Head with antennae inserted widely apart at apparent anterior margin of oral cavity above base of each mandible (Figs 1, 10). Antenna 10-segmented; flagellum without differentiated ring-like basal segment (anellus), consisting of 7 funicular segments and an unsegmented clava (e.g. Fig. 8). Mandible (except male S. dozieri ) bidentate with 2 similar teeth ( Bouček 1963, fig. 4; Gibson and Reigada 2009, fig. 11). Mesonotum with complete notauli (Fig. 5). Mesopleuron with posterior margin separated from and raised slightly above level of metapleuron (e.g. Fig. 17) and with a slender band of often fringed membrane between posterodorsal margin and metapleuron (e.g. Figs 87, 122: mpm). Individuals macropterous (except some P. rothi , Fig. 16); fore wing with marginal cilia and with long marginal vein and subequally short stigmal and postmarginal veins (Fig. 9, insert).