Muscidifurax Muscidifurax raptor Smeagolia Smeagolia perplexa A taxonomic study of Muscidifurax Girault & Sanders from China (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae) Xiao, Hui Zhou, Shi-yu Tong, Yan-feng ZooKeys 2018 776 91 103 5VVW 7428 Girault & Sanders, 1910 Girault & Sanders 1910 Insecta Pteromalidae Muscidifurax CoL Animalia Muscidifurax Hymenoptera 0 91 Arthropoda genus   MuscidifuraxGirault & Sanders, 1910: 146.  Muscidifurax raptorGirault & Sanders, 1910: 146; original designation and monotypy. Kogan and Legner 1970: 1268-1290; Propp 1984: 705; Narendran et al. 2006: 29-34. [Type species.]  SmeagoliaHedqvist, 1973: 237. Type species: Smeagolia perplexaHedqvist. Synonymized by  Boucek1991: 203.  Diagnosis. Body dark green, head, and mesosoma with distinctly white hairs, eye glabrous. Head wider than mesosoma, occipital carina strong. Antennal insertion placed on lower ocular line and face distinctly protuberant at antennal insertion; lower face receding almost horizontally. Antenna slender, formula 11173 in females, 11263 in males; lower margin of clypeus more or less incised medially, without median tooth. Pronotal collar margined; notauli incomplete; scutellum flattened; propodeum with median carina and complete plicae, nucha short but distinct. Marginal vein strongly thickened in proximal half (its lower margin distinctly sinuate) and progressively thinner in distal half. Gaster flattened dorsally, hind margin of Gt1 trilobed.  Biology. Hosts include Calliphoridae( Chrysomyasp., Phormiasp.) and Muscidae( Fannia canicularis, Fannia femoralis, Musca domestica, Stomoxyssp. and Stomoxys calcitrans) ( Noyes 2017).  Distribution. Palaearctic, Nearctic, Afrotropics, Neotropics, and Australasian regions (Noyes, 2017). China: Beijing, Shandong ( Guo et al. 1997).