Genus Genotropis Townes, 1970

Type species: Genotropis clara Townes, 1970; monotypic and original designation.

Diagnosis. Moderately slender species; eye margin moderately indented opposite antennal socket; clypeus strongly convex, apical margin arched and reflexed; mandible short, its lower margin with a weak lamella, upper tooth equal or slightly longer than lower tooth; genal carina joins hypostomal carina at mandible base; propodeal area superomedia confluent with area petiolaris, very long and narrow; hind basitarsus without a row of setae ventrally; tarsal claw strongly pectinate; fore wing areolet absent; hind wing with CU&cu-a not intercepted, 2-CU not connected with CU&cu-a; glymma obsolescent or sometimes absent; thyridium subcircular to oval, separated from base of tergite by about its length; ovipositor as long as apical depth of metasoma.

Key to species of Genotropis Townes (females)

1. Hind coxa entirely black; hind tibia yellow medially, blackish basally and apically; metasoma entirely black................................................................................... G. maculipedalis Sheng & Sun, 2013

-. Hind coxa with a pale yellow to yellow mark dorso-apically; hind tibia blackish or reddish brown; metasoma only basally black and remainder mainly reddish........................................................................... 2

2. Mesopleuron rugulose on its upper half and granulose-punctate on lower half (Fig. 6B); scape and pedicel blackish brown and yellowish anteriorly (Fig. 6D); mandible brownish with medial portion yellowish brown; tegula mainly blackish brown; fore and mid coxae black; hind leg black except tibia medially blackish brown..................... G. mauroknema sp. nov.

-. Mesopleuron subreticulate-rugose (Fig. 4B); scape, pedicel (Fig. 4D), mandible, tegula, fore and mid coxa pale yellow; hind femur ferruginous, tibia ferruginous to reddish brown....................................... G. clara Townes, 1970