Genus Deuterixys Mason, 1981

Deuterixys Mason 1981, 115: 123; Whitfeild 1985, 61(1): 60; Marsh et al. 1987, 13: 31; Whitfield and Wagner 1991, 25: 737; Austin and Dangerfield 1992, 6(1): 23.

Type species:

Microgaster carbonarius Wesmael, 1835. Designated by Mason 1981.

Diagonosis.

Areolet of fore wing absent; propodeum polished and bearing a strong long medial carina; TI of metasoma with medio-basal longitudinal groove; TII and III broad, rectangular, and noticeably constricted or abruptly widened at the suture between them; ovipositor sheaths short, decurved and subexerted.

Key to the Old World species of the genus Deuterixys Mason, 1981