Tribe Gigantiopini Ashmead 1905

Genus: Gigantiops .

Comments. This remains a monotypic tribe, represented by a single taxonomically isolated species, Gigantiops destructor, restricted to northern South America. The molecular phylogeny recovers Gigantiops as sister to Santschiella (Figure 1), a monotypic African genus, but support for this relationship is not strong, so we retain a separate tribe for Santschiella . Although both genera share distinctively large eyes, they differ markedly in configuration of the frontoclypeal complex, with the antennal insertions of Gigantiops being located close to one another and between the eyes (Bolton 2003).