Genus Cyanotiphia Cameron, 1907

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Cyanotiphia Cameron, 1907, The Entomologist 40:287 (description female).

Type species: Cyanotiphia ruficauda Cameron, 1907 (by monotype)

Type locality: Quop, Sarawak, Borneo . Type depository: British Museum.

Diagnosis. Males and females of the genus Cyanotiphia can be recognized by the following combination of characters (after Cameron, 1907; Allen, 1969):

1) body colour dark metallic blue (Figs. 2–3);

2) presence of two midtibial spurs (Figs. 3E);

3) mid and hind femora,in females, cylindrical, not broadened as in other genera of the subfamily Tiphiinae (Figs.3F);

4) radius of forewing with an intercubital spur as in Paratiphia Sichel (Figs. 2A, 3G);

5) tegulae large, about half the length of pro and mesonotum (Figs.2A, 3A).