Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Bethylidae

Genus Formosiepyris Terayama, 2004

Formosiepyris Terayama, 2004: 91. Type species: Formosiepyris marishi Terayama, 2004.

Diagnosis.

Head rounded; mandible with three or four teeth; median lobe of clypeus rounded or triangular; lateral lobe of clypeus undeveloped; eye covered with minute setae, large and convex; antenna with 13 antennomeres; posterior margin of pronotal disc and mesoscutum with transverse groove; posterolateral corner of propodeal disc with two pairs of small projections (Terayama 2004).

Distribution.

Oriental region and Afrotropical region (Species listed in the latter are not identified) (Terayama 2004; Xu and He 2005; Mugrabi and Azevedo 2010; Azevedo et al. 2010).

Host.

Unknown (Terayama 2004; Xu and He 2005).