Genus Methocha Latreille, 1804

Methocha Latreille, 1804, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat. 24: 179. Type species: Mutilla articulata Latreille, 1792, by original·designation and monotypy.

Methoca (!)·Latreille, 1804, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. 13: 268.

Tengyra Latreille, 1809, Gen. Crust. Ins. 4: 115. Synonym of Methocha by Dalla Torre, 1897: 1. Type species: Tengyra sanvitali Latreille, 1809, by monotypy.

Spinolia A. Costa, 1858, Fauna Napoli Scol.: 21. Synonym of Methocha by Dalla Torre, 1897: 1. Type species: Spinolia italica Costa, 1858, by monotypy.

Dryinopsis Brues, 1910, Jour. New York Ent. Soc. 18: 16. Synonym of Methocha by Lin, 1966: 182. Type species: Dryinopsis simplicipes Brues, 1910, by monotypy.

Diagnosis.

Males winged and females wingless; antennal lobe developed (Fig. 3) in both sexes; eye setose (Figs 2, 10, 18) in both sexes; in female mid and hind tibia each with 1 spur, and hind tibial spur with a row of comb-like spines; in male mid and hind tibia each with 2 spurs, and one of the two spurs with a row of comb-like spines; fore-wing with 2 submarginal cells enclosed by tubular veins (Figs 1, 9, 17).