Genus Pseudospinaria Enderlein, 1905 Figures 29, 30

Pseudospinaria Enderlein, 1905: 229; Quicke 1987: 127. Type species: Spinaria attenuata Westwood, 1882 (Monobasic and original designation).

Diagnosis.

Body medium-sized to large; terminal antennomere slender, strongly acute apically; scapus in lateral view basally rounded and at inner side usually with narrow apical ledge, concave apico-laterally, ventrally shorter than dorsally; eye glabrous, weakly emarginate; face coarsely sculptured; clypeus narrow and without dorsal carina; malar suture moderately developed, often with long and dense setae; labio-maxillary complex normal, not elongate; frons broadly impressed, with some setae and median groove; vertex and temples transversely rugose; notauli complete; mesoscutum with deep punctures near the notauli; metanotum with median carina protruding over propodeum posteriorly, and with a complete mid-longitudinal carina; propodeum coarsely punctate; angle between veins 1-SR and C+SC+R of fore wing ca. 60°; vein r of fore wing long, (nearly) ca. as long as vein 2-SR; fore wing vein 2-SR sinuate; vein 1-R1 of fore wing distinctly longer than pterostigma; fore wing vein cu-a slightly postfurcal; second submarginal cell of fore wing slender, but somewhat widened apically; tarsal claws with an additional tooth; basal lobes of claws rounded; T I without a media-longitudinal carina; T II with wide triangular medio-basal area, area reaching apex of tergite or nearly so; T IV-VI with lateral teeth; T VII of female with medio-apical tooth (absent in male); ovipositor with dorsal nodus and ventral serrations subapically; ovipositor sheath 0.1-0.3 × as long as fore wing.

Biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Oriental.

Note.

This genus is newly recorded from China. Of the two described species, only one species is recorded from China.