Syntactus Foerster , 1869

Sun, Shu-Ping & Sheng, Mao-Ling, 2012, A new species of genus Syntactus Foerster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ctenopelmatinae) with a key to Oriental and Eastern Palearctic species, ZooKeys 170, pp. 21-28 : 21

Syntactus Foerster, 1869

Syntactus Förster, 1869. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, 25(1868):210. Type-species: Ichneumon delusor Linnaeus; designated by Perkins 1962.

Tromopoea Förster, 1869:210. Type-species: Catoglyptus minor Holmgren; designated by Perkins 1962.

Brischkea Kriechbaumer, 1897:167. Type-species: ( Brischkea parvula Kriechbaumer) = delusor Linnaeus; monobasic.

Diagnosis.

Syntactus can be distinguished from all other genera of Pionini by the combination of the following characters: Apical margin of clypeus blunt. Clypeal foveae open, extraordinarily impressed. Subbasal portion of lower margin of mandible sharp, its outer face without a basal impression. Upper end of epicnemial carina reaching front margin of mesopleuron. Areolet absent. Nervellus subvertical. Glymma absent. Ovipositor thin, needle-like, straight or slightly upcurved.

Key to species of Syntactus Förster known in Oriental and Eastern Palaearctic Regions