Liodoryctes Szépligeti, 1906

Type species Acanthobracon australiensis Szépligeti, 1902 .

Liodoryctes Szépligeti, 1906: 599; Shenefelt and Marsh 1976: 1364; Yu et al. 2016.

Diagnosis. Occipital carina completely absent. Frons usually with deep depression and median longitudinal keel. Maxillary palp long and narrow; third labial palp segment shortened. Scapus of antenna common, without transformation. Notauli completely reduced in posterior half. Propodeum with dense areolation. Precoxal furrow present. Hind coxa dorsally with two, long and short, projections, without basoventral tubercle. First discal cell of fore wing petiolate anteriorly. Hind wing vein m-cu long and strongly curved towards the apical margin of the wing; marginal cell without transverse vein r; vein M + CU weakly longer than vein 1-M. Second metasomal tergite with two deep sublateral and weakly divergent curved furrows separated by a raised suboval median area.

Distribution. Australian and Ethiopian regions. Six recognised species.